Diana Worthy, Crich Pottery (Derbyshire)

Nice glazes to this 6.5 in 170 mm diameter bowl - came with the batch of Scandi Studio pots.

Incised initial D to underside. Any ideas anyone?





This is Crich pottery - Denbydump.

have got a sale on this one, it weighs over 6kg and is the largest that I have come across.

some lovely Crich pottery: plates, lidded jar and oil bottle

Does anyone know whichDenby patterns were designed by Diana?

dianaworthy@rocketmail.com

Big dome: 8" diameter.

23cm egg.

I've been meaning to put this on for a while, I've had it for at least 10 years. I'm surprised not to have seen more of them. I emailed David Worthty about it back in 2011 and got this reply:

"Yes I can confirm that the piece you have does indeed come from the  Crich Pottery studio, we called them  variously Pebbles/Eggs and where part of a range that Diana created around 1997 with a totally new colourway/ decorative style  named Lifeforce. She signed them all with her initials DW. We had been approached by John Lewis to come up with something exclusive and so  Lifeforce was born and went on to become a bestseller!"

Thanks Naomi :-)

It lost it handle, but is very nice nevertheless!!

I thought she retired abroad years ago?

Yeah she has a guest house in Spain these days

I've been twisting these pots round and round and still can't decide which way up this should read. Wondering if anyone here can enlighten me. Thanks.

Crich pottery Derbyshire, Diana Worthy

http://www.magicfabric.magix.net/public/pottery/crich.htm

dantheman wrote:Does anyone know whichDenby  patterns were designed by Diana?

No mention of her in the Denby book, was she just a decorator?

In response to this post:

https://www.20thcenturyforum.com/t14220-does-anyone-recognize-this-signature-please

I have a colour leaflet I got from the pottery, years ago, before it closed.
I guess I can't reproduce it on here, but it has some info on the colourways.
The leaflet mentions 8, but only has photographs of 7, so here goes.

BLUE / GREEN Blue/green/black
RAINBOW Light Blue/Dark Blue/Mauve
CORAL Red/Grey/Black
OATMEAL BROWN Beige/Dark Brown
HARVEST YELLOW Pale colours: Yellow/green/Grey
HEATHER Pale clours: Pink/Grey/Beige
AUTUMN RUST Beige/Brown on an Orange background.

I have only collected the rainbow so far, as it is by far the prettiest.

http://www.magicfabric.magix.net/public/pottery/crich.htm

Hmm well I've got into trouble already with Buchan info I have, so I'll need mods
permission first.

as far as I'm aware Industrial copyright, including promotional materials, lasted 25 years after the end of calendar year of the initial release - but they changed it recently so that it's no longer possible for copyright to be owned by a corporation, but by the individual creators, and with the standard lifetime +70 years copyright length, as with art, books, etc...

info supplied by Mr Nic Pinkspoons

Thanks Dan
So that must mean all the vintage ad blogs on Flickr and Tumblr, and sites like
http://www.vintageadbrowser.com/
are all being a bit naughty, or are just ignorant of the regs.

possibly but in our case skay is legally responsible for all content posted on the forum so we have to be whiter than white so he doesn't fall foul of the law (even though he doesn't read the pottery posts)