Re: Aldermaston Pottery

by **NaomiM** on Mon Apr 27, 2015 12:24 am

Aldermaston egg cup

by **NaomiM** on Mon Apr 27, 2015 3:17 pm

Little beaker. Looks like a commission for someone's 50th anniversary of some kind.

by **hercules brabazon** on Mon Apr 27, 2015 5:35 pm

Queen's Golden Jubilee? It seems to be some kind of crazed naive Lion and Unicorn.

by **NaomiM** on Mon Apr 27, 2015 8:23 pm

Ah that would make sense. The unicorn looks more like a seal with a spike through its head :)

by **eshearm** on Thu May 07, 2015 9:03 am

Hi anyone know who AF may be or the pottery studio this large cooking pot might come from? many thanks

by **denbydump** on Thu May 07, 2015 9:45 am

It looks like Aldermaston
The mark would be for Jane O'Connor (Nee Follet)

by **eshearm** on Thu May 07, 2015 10:28 am

Hi denbydump, thank you for that and see links on here to potters who were there at the time. Appears she was there 1978-80. Brilliant help as usual! X

by **NaomiM** on Sat May 23, 2015 12:48 am

Ursula Waechter, ex-Aldermaston, at New Greenham Arts gallery, nr. Newbury, as part of the Open Studios 2015

by ian Marlow on Sun May 24, 2015 11:28 am

I have this large Aldermaston bowl with a stylised J G signature. The only potter I can see on the list with those initials is a Janet Green, but can find no information. I have contacted a Janet Green who might have fitted the bill but is now a NZ potter and it's not her. Does anyone know if this is the right name or have any thoughts on the signature .

Many thanks
Ian

by **22 Crawford St.** on Sun May 24, 2015 12:21 pm

Ian - Welcome. Small chance it's by someone who left the pottery and changed their mark. Certainly looks Aldermaston related.

by **NaomiM** on Sun May 24, 2015 2:42 pm

Definitely looks like an Aldermaston trained potter, but not a mark I've come across, sorry

by **NaomiM** on Sun May 24, 2015 2:43 pm

You could try asking some other Aldermaston potters like Ursula to see if they remember them

by ian Marlow on Tue May 26, 2015 12:37 pm

Thanks for those replies. I'll try that suggestion.
Ian

by **NaomiM** on Fri Jun 19, 2015 6:30 pm

Mohamed Hamid jug, with his HA monogram. Trained at Aldermaston then joined Jonathan Chiswell Jones before setting up his own Star Pottery. Not sure when or where this was made or what the WA stands for.

by **22 Crawford St.** on Sun Jul 12, 2015 5:40 pm

[ Ian - going back that bowl could well be by Laurence McGowan - he used a series of marks after leaving Aldermaston. Blues and greens are also his type of glaze. ]

by **denbydump** on Sat Aug 15, 2015 9:24 pm

An interesting entry on the Honiton site. I didn't know ACS worked there for a time.

http://www.honiton-pottery-collectors-society.co.uk/default.asp?PageID=47

by **NaomiM** on Tue Aug 18, 2015 9:25 pm

Aldermaston mug, part of their standard ware. Marked with a 6. on the base.

by **22 Crawford St.** on Tue Aug 18, 2015 9:59 pm

Is that possibly a 1969/70 date mark ?

by **NaomiM** on Tue Aug 18, 2015 11:10 pm

I was wondering that but couldn't be sure.

by **NaomiM** on Mon Sep 07, 2015 7:35 pm

Aldermaston jug
I think the mark on the base is a date mark rather than a monogram. Possibly the conjoined triangles for 1994; the rest may be hidden under the glaze.

by **philpot** on Tue Sep 08, 2015 7:57 am

They did use a generic A for larger cooperative production workThis looks as though it might be a Milk jug or such like from a larger dinner or tea set. I think only Alan Caiger Smith himself used date codes at Akdermaston.

by **NaomiM** on Tue Sep 08, 2015 8:50 am

Would make sense. I haven't seen many dates on pieces and alot of assistants' pieces are unmarked standard ware.

by **denbydump** on Tue Nov 17, 2015 6:25 pm

An unusual coffee pot, I'm guessing Geoffrey Eastop, the only "E" potter on the list,
though the mark isn't exact. Any comments?

by **NaomiM** on Tue Nov 17, 2015 7:18 pm

Jason Shackleton is another possibility

by **NaomiM** on Wed Feb 24, 2016 6:52 pm

NaomiM wrote:.....Not sure what the WA stands for.

I've been informed by ex-Aldermaston potter, Miranda Thomas, that the W and WA marks are lustre and glaze codes.
She adds that " my Aldermaston mark looks like an AT (the "T" dropping down from the cross over of the "A") At Aldermaston everyone had to include a capital A in their mark."

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