Aldermaston Pottery

Aldermaston egg cup

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

[ 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. ]

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

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

Is that possibly a 1969/70 date mark ?

I was wondering that but couldn't be sure.

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.

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.

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

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

Jason Shackleton is another possibility

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."

I see a lot of the lustre pieces markes "10A" what does that mean?

When you say W & WA are glaze codes do you mean relating to how long they should be fired?

Example - I have a piece marked 10A WA 92 (then ACS under)

I think they relate to the particular chemical composition of the glaze or lustre.

AM or AW mark. A for Aldermaston but who is M or W?

The only one close to it seems to be Martin Wright.

Does anyone know the name of this potter please?
Is it David Tipler?