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Small vase - Ursula Mommens
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Ursula Mommens I believe.
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Thank you -not someone whose pots I’ve come across although I do know the name, off to do some more research.
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Nice one Potty, It being the one she used at Durham Wharf 1934-49. She worked at Wenford Bridge with Michael Cardew in 1945. After he had been working in Ghana for several years, Wonder if that is the African influence?
Research???? We got it all here!
https://www.20thcenturyforum.com/t6829-ursula-mommens?highlight=mommens
Research???? We got it all here!
https://www.20thcenturyforum.com/t6829-ursula-mommens?highlight=mommens
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Brilliant, thank you. I’d forgotten that I did know one fact about Ursula Mommens, that she was the great-granddaughter of Charles Darwin. I’m glad there’s a potential Michael Cardew link, it makes my first thought of Abuja seem not so way out there!
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philpot wrote:Nice one Potty, It being the one she used at Durham Wharf 1934-49. She worked at Wenford Bridge with Michael Cardew in 1945. After he had been working in Ghana for several years, Wonder if that is the African influence?
Research???? We got it all here!
https://www.20thcenturyforum.com/t6829-ursula-mommens?highlight=mommens
I have often seen the above written about it "being the one she used at Durham Wharf 1934-49". As I have never knowingly seen a piece made at Durham Wharf, even in Ursula's cellar when shown old pieces from her archive by Ursula herself, I can't really say for certain whether it was used there or not. However, as the mark are the initials, UD, for Ursula Darwin, it seems likely as when she was at Durham Wharf on the Thames in Chiswick she was married and known as Ursula Trevelyan. Therefore the mark logically would pre-date her marriage to Julian Trevelyan in 1934.
Basically the statement isn't correct as it suggests that she only used the mark at Durham Wharf. The reality is that she used the mark to stamp her thrown ceramics up until she stopped making pots at South Heighton near Newhaven a couple of years or so before her death in 2010 at the age of 101.
Ursula did look after Michael Cardew's pottery at Wenford Bridge, basically looking after the geese and keeping an eye on things, during Michael's absence but never actually work with him. She did make slip trailed earthenware at Winchcombe around the same time and kept examples on show in her house until her death.
Your pot has one of Ursula's common decoration techniques and glazes that she used in the 1990s and early 2000s when I knew her and gave her several solo exhibitions at my gallery. Therefore it was made at her South Heighton Pottery probably during this period (I suspect in the 1990s).
The vase was made, as many of Ursula's pieces was, to arrange flowers and the slightly exaggerated flair neck was Ursula's design to help with the flower arranging. It even got more pronounced later on.
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