tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28809784626370001672024-03-10T15:46:12.253+13:00New Zealand Pottery and Crown Lynn with Valerie Musings with Valerie Monk, NZ commercial pottery writer and researcher, and author of 'Crown Lynn, a New Zealand Icon' and Crown Lynn Collectors Handbook. Val Monkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11564133844683942529noreply@blogger.comBlogger78125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2880978462637000167.post-71345148264230899232023-06-09T14:42:00.005+12:002023-10-15T16:12:59.891+13:00ORZEL, ADELAAR AND AQUILA <p><br /></p><p><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;">As you can see from this pic, I have accumulated rather a lot of Orzel. This blogpost is my attempt to make sense of it. </span></b></i></p><p><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;">My heartfelt thanks to Cam and Bev Brown and to the late Chris Bown and family for the effort that they put into making sure we got this right. </span></b></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja4N4i3XmJ-lR4elA07FXyKzu3oUO5-VQC7yeGngchZim1rvtu44FGLN18C3cxHE9ObuW7yFSQUked1U5-3ma29ZT7pHrzV0Fz3uvSxtwJOvHtaJTKhyXEYEUWw73bbGEeIeytdz3yrCOPgsWPXE6nIfn4hshSAlljaR999WeVKS5ZFzpArJj72wBJ/s3081/001%20orzel%20on%20bed.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1735" data-original-width="3081" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja4N4i3XmJ-lR4elA07FXyKzu3oUO5-VQC7yeGngchZim1rvtu44FGLN18C3cxHE9ObuW7yFSQUked1U5-3ma29ZT7pHrzV0Fz3uvSxtwJOvHtaJTKhyXEYEUWw73bbGEeIeytdz3yrCOPgsWPXE6nIfn4hshSAlljaR999WeVKS5ZFzpArJj72wBJ/w640-h360/001%20orzel%20on%20bed.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><b>THE ORZEL STORY</b></p><p> After many years collecting Orzel, I am still impressed by the sheer volume of product, the huge range of shapes and the beautiful subtle decorative glazes. At first glance much of Orzel’s output looks a bit heavy, but it sold like hotcakes. At the time, (1970s-1990s) fine china was out of fashion and rustic pottery was in demand. In New Zealand, hundreds of hand-potters were run off their feet, and commercial castware manufacturers were keen to cash in on the hand-made trend. </p><p>Rustic Orzel is in strong contrast to the Titian Ware previously made by the Brown family. In the 1950s-1960s, Cameron Snr and Dorothy Brown created finely made, carefully decorated vases and ornaments. Then, in 1964, Cam Snr and Dorothy sold shares in Titian Potteries to fund expansion. That plan backfired. By 1968 Crown Lynn had bought up more than 50% of the shares and announced a ‘partnership’ with Titian – in effect a takeover. </p><p>Cam and Dorothy remained at the Titian factory for about 18 months, but at the same time they began making pottery in their garage at home. Early orders included six thousand orange-glazed mugs for Paramount Trading Company and a range of Tulip brand bath salts containers.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnZjAllju0zKXH2PNZrX0wfWTQZw3xGWBfC0PXry8JhD2rLCLwhRN9252otB0lTzf1EiiAsjhzkyEcGcnn-t65tKbf185OIs5ojhM_zyI8JIrCQEzrKFGuhvJNrLM1fmy-qkG3nbi-xdXGjFQsREziscwpIpKZEFouLzKQFDudVGjqQ00ngl7bNsK2/s453/001%20pots%20orzel%20bath%20salts%20containers.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="449" data-original-width="453" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnZjAllju0zKXH2PNZrX0wfWTQZw3xGWBfC0PXry8JhD2rLCLwhRN9252otB0lTzf1EiiAsjhzkyEcGcnn-t65tKbf185OIs5ojhM_zyI8JIrCQEzrKFGuhvJNrLM1fmy-qkG3nbi-xdXGjFQsREziscwpIpKZEFouLzKQFDudVGjqQ00ngl7bNsK2/w400-h396/001%20pots%20orzel%20bath%20salts%20containers.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p><i>Above: early bathroom products made in the family garage. The corked jar and matching beaker had their own distinctive mark on the base. A later version of this beaker had a small handle. (See the marks and stickers section at the end of this post). </i></p><p>Inevitably Crown Lynn discovered that the Browns were moonlighting, and they were asked to leave Titian. By then the new enterprise was well on its way and in 1972 Cameron and Dorothy Brown set up a factory at Firth St in Drury. Here, they mass-produced the ware which we commonly recognise as Orzel. </p><p>By this time Cam Snr and Dorothy’s son ‘young’ Cameron and his wife Beverley were actively involved in the family business. Cam Jnr managed the manufacturing side while Beverley ran the office. Later, younger brother Chris joined the team and concentrated on marketing – a big job in an expanding pottery. </p><p>During Orzel’s lifetime an estimated seven or eight million pieces were made and sold. At its height in the mid-1980s there were about 40 staff and Orzel sold to outlets throughout New Zealand, and even exported a few container-loads to Australia. Often, the Browns would start work before dawn and get home after dark. Staff too worked very long hours. The pressure was intense. Cam and Beverley remember the weekend after Cam’s much-loved mother Dorothy died. There was a deadline for a large order and the family had to keep working, with tears streaming. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf31Itp9g3RyHt6Q4MNmGXgcDk2KHHoR6Pu3E1h3ZAvksxKp-pULVZOxs9Nhorvbch4kfhqRHfrie1s8fIINtOfrdOLDMkfghkaX0-iXDT-sw7a4bng6-eCqMNxVOjhe1tBYAsLLvUXWa353OjF63b8BXrSKfw9y2wSO7ZrP_ytVvFlIpIgN9q4dOi/s2046/IMG_20230609_0038.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1354" data-original-width="2046" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf31Itp9g3RyHt6Q4MNmGXgcDk2KHHoR6Pu3E1h3ZAvksxKp-pULVZOxs9Nhorvbch4kfhqRHfrie1s8fIINtOfrdOLDMkfghkaX0-iXDT-sw7a4bng6-eCqMNxVOjhe1tBYAsLLvUXWa353OjF63b8BXrSKfw9y2wSO7ZrP_ytVvFlIpIgN9q4dOi/w640-h424/IMG_20230609_0038.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><i>Above: the Brown family in 1990 (photo from the Saturday Courier)</i></p><p>The Brown family traded mainly under the name Orzel, but also used the brands Adelaar and Aquila. Adelaar is derived from Dutch/German, while Aquila is Latin. All three brands were related to the Polish eagle. Cam Snr served in the Polish merchant navy during the Second World War and had great affection for Poland and its people. </p><p>The family tells me that there was no consistent system governing the marks on Orzel ware, or which pieces were marked with Aquila or Adelaar. Aquila is often seen on larger pieces such as the animals, but the brand was also used on beer steins and pub-style jugs. Through the years, Orzel Industries sometimes used stick-on labels, backstamps or impressed marks to identify their product. However much of its output is unmarked.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik7EKkEhiDPCFnKANzylgT7ePTz7qC4XcRIX16snoyxUiW2GOoXxt6560x5WBXjqTTvDNGp-WcvOwW5csguvT-TeAW6_brpJ2A5EaABMbFWSYfls3_7SnVUuh0HV7rsY1q_EeWUIIYsDtt7UpTR5djGiEHujlIMHKxKXznly5_BZiS1cjLDhX7GQhU/s456/002%20pots%20orzel%20friar%20tuck.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="456" data-original-width="385" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik7EKkEhiDPCFnKANzylgT7ePTz7qC4XcRIX16snoyxUiW2GOoXxt6560x5WBXjqTTvDNGp-WcvOwW5csguvT-TeAW6_brpJ2A5EaABMbFWSYfls3_7SnVUuh0HV7rsY1q_EeWUIIYsDtt7UpTR5djGiEHujlIMHKxKXznly5_BZiS1cjLDhX7GQhU/w338-h400/002%20pots%20orzel%20friar%20tuck.jpg" width="338" /></a></div><p><i>Above: 1980s Friar Tuck toby jug. The Sherwood Forest series of toby jugs made in the 1970s/1980s are all stamped with the Aquila brand. Cam Snr and Dorothy Brown made an earlier series of Robin Hood derived jugs at their little Sherwood Pottery in the 1950s. However the later Aquila jugs were newly modelled and much larger. </i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx3x75SBpfUUhPuLe7fW6Ox85O6GkiY9tnxbjmuhFX_y8K9zsoHBIRfDZbjLB-KmoML_Tvp1mZkxnOLyeee_quRJ5pNMEx-kVbuyRAGtQW8N3vbz70AerVzdfYpp3VLz4bNj5R_2ohPAQriJekgqaeIwWR6EYEM4SStSn-c5b732q9-lJsWPkpZCR1/s1702/003%20%20orzel%20adelaar.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1178" data-original-width="1702" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx3x75SBpfUUhPuLe7fW6Ox85O6GkiY9tnxbjmuhFX_y8K9zsoHBIRfDZbjLB-KmoML_Tvp1mZkxnOLyeee_quRJ5pNMEx-kVbuyRAGtQW8N3vbz70AerVzdfYpp3VLz4bNj5R_2ohPAQriJekgqaeIwWR6EYEM4SStSn-c5b732q9-lJsWPkpZCR1/w640-h442/003%20%20orzel%20adelaar.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><i>Above: Orzel products carrying the Adelaar brand. See the end of this post for a catalogue of marks and stamps. </i> </p><p>At first the Brown family sold most of their product to wholesale distributors and the Deka chain stores. Later, through the mid to late 1980s, up to 80% of Orzel’s output went to The Warehouse retail chain. When the first trial order for kitchen cannisters came through the Browns were delighted, but soon orders from the 80-odd Warehouse stores were pouring relentlessly off the fax machine, day and night. Often the factory struggled to keep up, but despite the occasional hiccup The Warehouse proved an excellent outlet for five or six years. Bills were always paid on time and the Brown family was treated with respect and kindness. </p><p>Popular ranges included The Settlers Collection, Colonial Ware and terracotta kitchen containers glazed inside in clear, white, green or blue-purple. Sales to The Warehouse ended when terracotta waned in popularity and rising transport costs made delivery throughout New Zealand too expensive. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUXBrV311hCgMlfI9fpeYduTvIp9ZKEvkEXjIuMIj0eEap0qhNXLJT3XN2nrCoj6pVqHk6DFeQuqerOa8NfiKe6xs7r915pObfP2oaf9v9eAgqq_Uxi0pV4dXwps6TJUeTyoG1Rbx6CoePQXqdvhtav4-KPNsbNkF6XDPkp2ke6eSNHDPzaNLFKIJp/s491/003%20Orzel%20settlers.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="338" data-original-width="491" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUXBrV311hCgMlfI9fpeYduTvIp9ZKEvkEXjIuMIj0eEap0qhNXLJT3XN2nrCoj6pVqHk6DFeQuqerOa8NfiKe6xs7r915pObfP2oaf9v9eAgqq_Uxi0pV4dXwps6TJUeTyoG1Rbx6CoePQXqdvhtav4-KPNsbNkF6XDPkp2ke6eSNHDPzaNLFKIJp/w640-h440/003%20Orzel%20settlers.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><i>Above: First made for distributors Harrisons and Crosfield, the Settlers Collection ware was later sold through The Warehouse and other retailers. Similar style graphics were used on Colonial Ware. (Eg the lidded jar and salt and pepper at left). Transfers were made in-house, by Janine Brown and other staff. Janine still sometimes designs for the family business today. Other potteries, notably Kermiko, also made a Settlers Collection range.</i></p><p>Cam Brown Jnr and his father created most of the glazes, which were often in rich, dark colours. Cam and his staff were aways keen to try new combinations and techniques. In the early 1990s Cam was asked for a speckled glaze, and he collected a couple of buckets of black iron sand from Auckland’s Karioitahi Beach near Waiuku. The sand was incorporated into a pale creamy glaze, which was stirred vigorously and often to keep the sand in suspension. This very popular speckled glaze was called Old English. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyQrAzCurYvFrDf56xIyV7dFMLjDabQ1f1vRTpWfd3qPPCrLcDlpDgFIHb3uDT8KQtbQISkwBwGBNC0vhxx229mn0VOUN0oFDd7cVFJosEc8Kv29ZSFtkXKVpAulAu45Cu0AbPXhiVAd1QX7gYy86gJqOl1nrd2PcEnpJp8a6ZcfNohHbBzY3HLkMA/s639/008%20pots%20orzel%20speckle%20glazes.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="404" data-original-width="639" height="404" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyQrAzCurYvFrDf56xIyV7dFMLjDabQ1f1vRTpWfd3qPPCrLcDlpDgFIHb3uDT8KQtbQISkwBwGBNC0vhxx229mn0VOUN0oFDd7cVFJosEc8Kv29ZSFtkXKVpAulAu45Cu0AbPXhiVAd1QX7gYy86gJqOl1nrd2PcEnpJp8a6ZcfNohHbBzY3HLkMA/w640-h404/008%20pots%20orzel%20speckle%20glazes.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><i>Above: various products decorated with sand-laden speckled glazes.</i></p><p>After the Crown Lynn takeover, modeller and mould maker Hemara Hemara also left Titian and joined the Brown family’s fledgling Orzel Industries. Hemara had a long history with the Browns. He joined Titian Pottery in 1963, primarily as a mould maker. Later, at Orzel, he was also a prolific modeller. Generally speaking Cam Snr modelled the more detailed pieces such as toby jugs, and Hemara Hemara modelled kitchenware. Mould making was mainly Hemara’s job, assisted by his son Paul. </p><p>Hemara was largely self-taught, and his technique was very different from formally trained modellers, who create detailed drawings first. To model a new shape, Hemara would first make a smooth solid piece of plaster of paris, then use a tool like a large carpenter’s nail to carve it freehand. Usually a series of failures would be discarded as he got closer and closer to a shape he was happy with. </p><p>After several years, the Hemaras left Orzel to set up business for themselves. Other modellers, including Wayne Manion, also worked at Orzel. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg08g6aF1i1lJnRIlvtjwZT9b6Y8EY7gv3WZYktxpO5rDhjwhxIihVckbdVxm5ef7_Nrx3SJ24MXmA8ElWS09c1tOAUT0Hh0D-PNpjThQ-LccGQI3JiM0kcuQ-Bcit-SY0UNXSUGjo8s-eLs_s9VsDfWFIye1E9enwO60V7uQqKIkvWrJFYE6yN8YE2/s396/004%20pots%20orzel%20lattice%20ware%20best.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="318" data-original-width="396" height="514" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg08g6aF1i1lJnRIlvtjwZT9b6Y8EY7gv3WZYktxpO5rDhjwhxIihVckbdVxm5ef7_Nrx3SJ24MXmA8ElWS09c1tOAUT0Hh0D-PNpjThQ-LccGQI3JiM0kcuQ-Bcit-SY0UNXSUGjo8s-eLs_s9VsDfWFIye1E9enwO60V7uQqKIkvWrJFYE6yN8YE2/w640-h514/004%20pots%20orzel%20lattice%20ware%20best.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><i>Above: Orzel lattice ware modelled by Hemara Hemara. This was one of Orzel’s most successful ranges. There were lattice ware mugs, jugs, spice jars, lidded kitchen cannisters, salt pigs, coffee pots and salt and pepper sets. </i></p><p>For many years, Orzel ware was made with the family’s own white clay body. Then, recalls Cam, his brother Chis warned that the market for pottery made with white clay was waning, but he could sell any amount of red-clay terracotta ware. When it became only too obvious that Chris was right, Cam dug some red clay from the factory yard. Miraculously, this was the basis for a very successful terracotta clay body. Over the years the backyard clay pit grew larger and larger, and crept ever closer to a neighbouring factory. The neighbour complained to the authorities, which brought a swift order to stop digging. Fortunately, by then this was no great loss as terracotta ware was no longer in great demand.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU203O8tnweUIsa5rBXg8UcZxZGRs4HYIUVFcN2wCkYH_mrBOSbOifQgwdRQc5ujmBvtD4RKIxKGN9ZvfBh1xehOyhy17zb_epCKgrNnS3l9ppXP1tEBVvysFUYuKZwYkgEe_QY85LWK26IBytDjw6gUHF7Kre4a1S-T1a_viiDBrfaza5ET74NZdT/s2320/008%20Pots%20orzel%20terracotta%20in%20box.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="2320" height="345" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU203O8tnweUIsa5rBXg8UcZxZGRs4HYIUVFcN2wCkYH_mrBOSbOifQgwdRQc5ujmBvtD4RKIxKGN9ZvfBh1xehOyhy17zb_epCKgrNnS3l9ppXP1tEBVvysFUYuKZwYkgEe_QY85LWK26IBytDjw6gUHF7Kre4a1S-T1a_viiDBrfaza5ET74NZdT/w400-h345/008%20Pots%20orzel%20terracotta%20in%20box.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p><i>Above: Orzel terracotta ware. These herb pots are in their original box. Branded Settlers Collection, they were sold through The Warehouse chain stores. </i></p><p>From the early 1970s and through the 1980s, Orzel made a satisfactory living for the Brown family and their employees. Sadly, in 1994 the matriarch Dorothy Brown died. By then business was waning and in the mid-1990s the Drury factory was sold. However the new owner was not successful and the family bought it back. Then Cam Jnr became very ill and spent weeks in hospital. The big factory was emptied and leased out, and Orzel Industries downsized to a smaller building close to the family home. When Cam’s health improved, the Browns continued making ceramics in a smaller way. </p><p>Today, Cameron Jnr and Beverley – assisted part-time by their son, also named Cameron – make kiwiana and ornamental pieces to sell at markets around the country. They use the brand Sherwood, the name used by Cameron Snr and Dorothy when they first started out in the 1950s.</p><p><b>MORE ABOUT ORZEL PRODUCTS</b></p><p><u> 1. Domestic ware</u></p><p>Orzel made large amounts of household ware including kitchen jars, coffee sets and teapots, mugs, sugar pots, jugs, casseroles, ramekins, spice jars, salt and pepper sets, lamp bases and wine containers. Kitchen jars were lidded or corked. Orzel made very few plates, mainly because special machinery and techniques are needed to make flatware efficiently. Much of the domestic ware was glazed in rich browns, blues and greens, in keeping with the fashions of the time. There are a few jugs and kitchen cannisters in white, most decorated with floral transfers</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGIySo8TC9kAEsqZw41gVPTLQf6iAeh3Lf_K9pHBEYIgWLas_FtaOiawVJlqca8CgJDUwvHO-MWODi_GieGvBZ1RJa9xPUoRhwjdD6q99Ze3vdnONWhxxhZuFwIGvXkRmTcInZsXx92ekgqlWkFFxDDQfjNw24mRjKa4A3AGk0zSdq18nFl9yeSiAH/s596/006%20pots%20orzel%20mugs%20more.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="329" data-original-width="596" height="354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGIySo8TC9kAEsqZw41gVPTLQf6iAeh3Lf_K9pHBEYIgWLas_FtaOiawVJlqca8CgJDUwvHO-MWODi_GieGvBZ1RJa9xPUoRhwjdD6q99Ze3vdnONWhxxhZuFwIGvXkRmTcInZsXx92ekgqlWkFFxDDQfjNw24mRjKa4A3AGk0zSdq18nFl9yeSiAH/w640-h354/006%20pots%20orzel%20mugs%20more.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><i>Above: Coffee mugs were hugely popular. One researcher has counted 24 different Orzel mug shapes. Popular glazes included shiny brown Mahogany (far left) and greenish Sherwood (right).</i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVfZHoyvi6RRx3z3e1Lkc4PB-VFr7Ka1B9-XqZQE1eTTCu086lThXfGz3-1apgcFEyBQW5f0mNUl-oLj7QdOKqG79JBKodra6gsTq0kHDJY5ZaOQJl4gN1I64UuwYrQSDobaoFY5ahSq6eSwwbl1NlwjHXP8xNd7e4BfIhcwc48KjNK0KpPuDzcKjt/s719/007%20%20Orzel%20orange%20set.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="372" data-original-width="719" height="332" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVfZHoyvi6RRx3z3e1Lkc4PB-VFr7Ka1B9-XqZQE1eTTCu086lThXfGz3-1apgcFEyBQW5f0mNUl-oLj7QdOKqG79JBKodra6gsTq0kHDJY5ZaOQJl4gN1I64UuwYrQSDobaoFY5ahSq6eSwwbl1NlwjHXP8xNd7e4BfIhcwc48KjNK0KpPuDzcKjt/w640-h332/007%20%20Orzel%20orange%20set.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><i>Above: a set of Orzel kitchenware. The roped jar would have originally been corked. Far right are a salt pig (front) and an oil jar, both popular items in the 1970s. </i></p><p><u>2. Ornamental ware</u></p><p>Alongside sturdy kitchenware, Orzel made ornaments, ranging from bud vases to large animals. These were carefully made and skilfully decorated. Shapes came from a variety of sources. A few were Titian Potteries shapes, re-modelled in the Orzel factory, and others were designed after Orzel was established. A range of animals and other figures were adapted from American moulds found in Hobby Ceramics catalogues. At least one ornament, a large shell, is a replica of a Crown Lynn shape.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDwZIbbGlijEIT9pEcCMO8Hp2ddpF3_MEYUnCp9NImvPYUzW3b-jBIUbD-w03ezyUtOhWJqGQqRBfoScF2ybSDwHNdXcWDUfpOQ5KqkANUHgiyees6sjagId_eIiRBjzNMDFe-1W0aoyEcWr3qKJU94AQoJrWQ423559J4SH_tzEOR4HyMklU5lagd/s470/009%20Pots%20orzel%20lustre%20shell.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="289" data-original-width="470" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDwZIbbGlijEIT9pEcCMO8Hp2ddpF3_MEYUnCp9NImvPYUzW3b-jBIUbD-w03ezyUtOhWJqGQqRBfoScF2ybSDwHNdXcWDUfpOQ5KqkANUHgiyees6sjagId_eIiRBjzNMDFe-1W0aoyEcWr3qKJU94AQoJrWQ423559J4SH_tzEOR4HyMklU5lagd/w400-h246/009%20Pots%20orzel%20lustre%20shell.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p><i>Above: some Orzel ornaments are finished in the white lustre glaze developed by Cam Brown Snr in the Titian Pottery days. This shell is a direct copy of a Crown Lynn shape.</i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKzyy5oIO8OIn3xjl3XWyX7TgsNS8vgdCUa5V61sd0lgLoTxAS1uBZp10uPghWBGdYh_5qcw5Z-lH63N2XEBx08LGnWu9QPbGc__-ywrgdHVKuJheQ0k1OICc4f4bsFXJYzd9DDzJjJ53s5wRjdy9GejxPZABR9gm8l_1HfcufCMDr6bN0AtAGApFR/s674/009%20Orzel%20numbered%20vases.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="376" data-original-width="674" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKzyy5oIO8OIn3xjl3XWyX7TgsNS8vgdCUa5V61sd0lgLoTxAS1uBZp10uPghWBGdYh_5qcw5Z-lH63N2XEBx08LGnWu9QPbGc__-ywrgdHVKuJheQ0k1OICc4f4bsFXJYzd9DDzJjJ53s5wRjdy9GejxPZABR9gm8l_1HfcufCMDr6bN0AtAGApFR/w640-h358/009%20Orzel%20numbered%20vases.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><i>Above: this range of small vases was one of Orzel’s consistently popular products. They were first made in the 1970s, and small runs in assorted glazes were made for a variety of clients right through until the 1990s. The vases have individual shape numbers impressed into the base. </i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoM6xjZJQZxJbinYDI0bCDfASyvEXoh_9IDt42yKNfXpLgMI4ZtKawtxYCX5OHqIKMaABqaspIM5C69O6H053m8oYW07ul3HTdOZBCXKtDtw1HT5NKo8CexiZZwhtG9f5IkVqL4qItD_2sYIqx5vWJAM3HqCMme3Q6D_tirVk825xnTwGvlvkKVzbt/s1847/010%20Orzel%20egyptian.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="881" data-original-width="1847" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoM6xjZJQZxJbinYDI0bCDfASyvEXoh_9IDt42yKNfXpLgMI4ZtKawtxYCX5OHqIKMaABqaspIM5C69O6H053m8oYW07ul3HTdOZBCXKtDtw1HT5NKo8CexiZZwhtG9f5IkVqL4qItD_2sYIqx5vWJAM3HqCMme3Q6D_tirVk825xnTwGvlvkKVzbt/w640-h306/010%20Orzel%20egyptian.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p><i>Above: Orzel made a series of elegant ewers and vases decorated with Egyptian motifs, and another series featuring Lascaux prehistoric cave drawings. These were first made in the Titian era, and re-created at Orzel. The decorations were created by Cam Brown Snr. Image courtesy of Louise de Varga</i>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEComAwduurY_kawoxTdnUNCAecKYlJ6-PzyIt0NLjpJ3kvIl8uV1LZF6MkQaN89xWRmaO1iGY73anWps6Cjk9cKqF9tfXKirXeG2ebRQDvppaIOQik6iwDFE6iR74VxvrYPDF7qi8uyQLBwW5E2XDcQtqSTyFY0t5-yWIoueOy3f0AIg5dKNepJB1/s1665/010%20Manhattan%20ware%20orzel%20andrew%20clifford.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="848" data-original-width="1665" height="326" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEComAwduurY_kawoxTdnUNCAecKYlJ6-PzyIt0NLjpJ3kvIl8uV1LZF6MkQaN89xWRmaO1iGY73anWps6Cjk9cKqF9tfXKirXeG2ebRQDvppaIOQik6iwDFE6iR74VxvrYPDF7qi8uyQLBwW5E2XDcQtqSTyFY0t5-yWIoueOy3f0AIg5dKNepJB1/w640-h326/010%20Manhattan%20ware%20orzel%20andrew%20clifford.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><i>Above: Stylish Orzel Manhattan Ware was named by Dorothy Brown, who said the shapes reminded her of the Manhattan skyline. The range includes vases, an oil jug, bowls, a beaker, a tall bottle and a lamp base. Colour combinations were rich greens, browns and purples, and a honey-coloured glaze. Image courtesy Andrew Clifford</i></p><p><u>3. Commercial ware</u></p><p>For Orzel, commercial orders provided a reliable income. There were ceramic jars, bottles and various containers for manufacturers of food and other products. One customer commissioned their own ‘Abbeville’ containers for pickles and chutneys. Small mustard pots made for Eta Foods were a big seller in the mid to late 1970s; Cam Brown remembers making 60,000 of them for a single consignment. The pots were corked, and made in a wide variety of glazes. There were also thousands of Bic ballpoint pen holders in assorted glazes.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm5YiX6xAURDiOaaHlNTzFHbkRj9kpji8JlEyKtjcVYDbLGiWbAntPR1BetNYpB105-C11vXCmhXLYmTUHmQPJVlx_L0FYWkf20wCzZ-5opLtYEUo7B4svFkyFpVNY5an0Ao4fRUzUlCr5Kx3FQDj9inb3IrSmBZjyrtQeM5HGOczueRGsgzFW4yl4/s560/010%20Orzel%20commercial.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="334" data-original-width="560" height="382" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm5YiX6xAURDiOaaHlNTzFHbkRj9kpji8JlEyKtjcVYDbLGiWbAntPR1BetNYpB105-C11vXCmhXLYmTUHmQPJVlx_L0FYWkf20wCzZ-5opLtYEUo7B4svFkyFpVNY5an0Ao4fRUzUlCr5Kx3FQDj9inb3IrSmBZjyrtQeM5HGOczueRGsgzFW4yl4/w640-h382/010%20Orzel%20commercial.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><i>Above: Orzel containers. From left: blue and white Orchid bath salts bottle, (rear) Abbeville pickles and chutneys, Pruneax Au Porto jar, Nut Oata muesli. (Front) Eta mustard pots, Bostik (glue) jar and a Bic ballpoint pen holder.</i></p><p><u> 4. The breweries – steins and more steins</u></p><p> In the 1970s and 1980s, Orzel’s most important commercial customers were the competing beer giants Lion and Dominion Breweries. Throughout New Zealand there were scores of busy hard-drinking sports clubs. In return for exclusive sales, the breweries gave clubs hundreds of free steins featuring the brewer’s logo. Many were given to members to take home. Thousands of steins were given or sold to New Zealand armed services clubs, and some even went to the Australian Football League (AFL). Cam Brown estimates that over the years Orzel made two or three hundred thousand steins in various sizes and shapes. Other potteries also made steins, but Orzel was the largest manufacturer by far.</p><p>In another huge deal Orzel supplied Cobb & Co, a chain of 37 family restaurants owned by Lion Breweries. Cobb & Co steins and jugs all had a nick in the base so that they didn’t pool water when they went through the dishwashers upside down. As well as jugs and steins, Cobb & Co commissioned tableware including pinkish-glazed lattice ware salad containers. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigvBDJutgMdwFYRY3Xw4FE1UOqxyzPyTMPISxGplEP554hIzhqPO9gPDcgTdICkFxJFvs8v3SfqfiS9x-AZknsI9ZgzOcFAUS6VAAYPQCU8klhC8Zpp4DZfkA7DewC0btgCQUfETP7HB01Lc6lAcIClqs_aiTOGCaM8HkxccNJ4kzoGBSst5Z5TRI_/s687/012%20pots%20orzel%20stein%20and%20jug.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="469" data-original-width="687" height="436" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigvBDJutgMdwFYRY3Xw4FE1UOqxyzPyTMPISxGplEP554hIzhqPO9gPDcgTdICkFxJFvs8v3SfqfiS9x-AZknsI9ZgzOcFAUS6VAAYPQCU8klhC8Zpp4DZfkA7DewC0btgCQUfETP7HB01Lc6lAcIClqs_aiTOGCaM8HkxccNJ4kzoGBSst5Z5TRI_/w640-h436/012%20pots%20orzel%20stein%20and%20jug.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><i>Above: Orzel beer steins and jug. </i></p><p>From 1979-1983/4 Orzel made Maori-themed crocks for Ti Toki liqueur. Through the decades these crocks have been made by many other potteries including Crown Lynn, Stewart Potteries, Kermiko and Bob Steiner. In the early 1980s Orzel made jars for Jim Beam whisky, and for a time also made bottles for Thames-based Totara Liqueurs. The liquor companies also commissioned promotional ware such as ashtrays for Johnnie Walker whisky and Seagers gin.</p><p><u>5. The Hobby Ceramics connection</u></p><p>During the 1980s, Chris Brown ran a very successful hobby ceramics business in the same factory as Orzel Industries. He imported most of his moulds from large suppliers in the United States. Using these same moulds, often with small adaptations, Cam and Beverley developed a successful range of well-made animals and other figures which they sold mainly under the Aquila brand. Thus, you may find a hobby ceramics piece and an almost identical figurine made by Orzel/Aquila. The Orzel/Aquila pieces can be differentiated from the hobby ceramics versions - they were made with heavier clay and skillfully painted, usually by Beverley Brown. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikZMGwMWZhfcVD3iO_Wg0ghXAXmJOMyZpIuyXzUDP-3KSAMzY3c2b_8gns3TMNgYSFhHJsCm4zCogjll8VZZqbfDf03lVVyvCWO6RBN9KaeAaGzj8BIIrQ3rW5F1lV-8N7O0IKKrrgw7no3ijjssf5amVJISK-VayxFd7slc_cS0kzrmPP6yIa_TWk/s466/014%20Orzel%20hobby%20stag.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="466" data-original-width="453" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikZMGwMWZhfcVD3iO_Wg0ghXAXmJOMyZpIuyXzUDP-3KSAMzY3c2b_8gns3TMNgYSFhHJsCm4zCogjll8VZZqbfDf03lVVyvCWO6RBN9KaeAaGzj8BIIrQ3rW5F1lV-8N7O0IKKrrgw7no3ijjssf5amVJISK-VayxFd7slc_cS0kzrmPP6yIa_TWk/w389-h400/014%20Orzel%20hobby%20stag.JPG" width="389" /></a></div><p><i>Above: a stag figurine adapted from a hobby ceramics mould. The base was modified to improve stability. </i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhORScN3boQecsimM4L2dIHPdthUVQbIPudjhpMPtqB1A90Mpsf1c-RxwGULPAEri-VZ4la4IJnaD-426SA_7htIP8T9FNp3Azy5yABOfLkkgTP3BviiIXWa5nER93wWDOfnNUI7RO5X-P0T3GUxTJGiPSuTL0yZcPJhcodIByiFkrC0Bbz2F4p86fZ/s884/013%20Orzel%20hobby%20tiger%20-%20Copy.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="505" data-original-width="884" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhORScN3boQecsimM4L2dIHPdthUVQbIPudjhpMPtqB1A90Mpsf1c-RxwGULPAEri-VZ4la4IJnaD-426SA_7htIP8T9FNp3Azy5yABOfLkkgTP3BviiIXWa5nER93wWDOfnNUI7RO5X-P0T3GUxTJGiPSuTL0yZcPJhcodIByiFkrC0Bbz2F4p86fZ/w640-h366/013%20Orzel%20hobby%20tiger%20-%20Copy.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p><i>Above: This tiger, also derived from a Hobby Ceramics shape, was decorated by Beverley Brown</i></p><p>The range of pieces derived from Hobby Ceramics included an eagle, a pair of flamingos, an owl, a tiger, an Alsatian dog, and two reclining bloodhound dogs. The largest were about 50 cm tall. Other Orzel/Aquila ornaments that originated as Hobby Ceramics were smaller human figurines, a boy and girl in white glaze, garden ornaments, a stag, a pair of Thai-style heads, a spaniel, a planter with an owl in relief, even a swan in white lustre. Others carrying the Orzel or Aquila sticker include a seated horse, matador and bull figurines, Roman gladiators, a shark, a seal and a marlin, elephants, a rabbit, a cockatoo and a persian cat. It is quite likely that there are more Orzel/Aquila figures with the same origins.</p><p>As a separate range, Orzel made polar bears and penguins glazed in white lustre for the Auckland Zoo shop.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4ulbIZG5Ecwcvb57AAdkji8wyZY-eQbAlv-kDo6FOu53yA_10thbmg_-0z0utiO5KU7ONQSgWQd0hBmFEBJJRw7L7L99U60Bu0D5XOrp9dZRzbichkdH8exM0wSBf_BVHqk2lEQBzQ9uIeNHWHfyZM8TyyY_LbG4bifSRY62gDJFhsPWeuUPKYpFc/s711/015%20Flamingos%20vanessa.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="711" data-original-width="642" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4ulbIZG5Ecwcvb57AAdkji8wyZY-eQbAlv-kDo6FOu53yA_10thbmg_-0z0utiO5KU7ONQSgWQd0hBmFEBJJRw7L7L99U60Bu0D5XOrp9dZRzbichkdH8exM0wSBf_BVHqk2lEQBzQ9uIeNHWHfyZM8TyyY_LbG4bifSRY62gDJFhsPWeuUPKYpFc/w578-h640/015%20Flamingos%20vanessa.png" width="578" /></a></div><p><i>Above; these tall, fragile flamingos were derived from Hobby Ceramics moulds. They proved very popular and quite large numbers were made. Image courtesy Vanessa Jarlov</i></p><p><b>IDENTIFYING ORZEL, ADELAAR AND AQUILA</b></p><p>Most Orzel ware is unmarked. However some pieces were identified: </p><p>- a few items, notably Aquila, are backstamped. Orzel very seldom used backstamps – stamping was too time-consuming for a mass manufacturing business.</p><p>- Sometimes the mould carried words impressed into the finished item - Orzel and Adelaar are sometimes marked in this way. </p><p>- a few Orzel and Aquila pieces carry a stick-on label. </p><p>Importantly, the Orzel Industries team had a distinctive way of fettling. You can often see knife-marks on the base of the piece, where excess clay has been trimmed away when the still-damp pieces come out of the mould. </p><p><u><b>Orzel Adelaar and Aquila marks and stickers</b></u></p><p>Adelaar</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCmlAvEk99zppcmTeghZsjeZY-jjSjBE8Ygi_JiYDwwqC_FkmcVjnQHAYxAxjKcBVwrAspQuniqXRdOTge1OxEnQR3MjeEHgOoALd7Dm7zouyS3tnhSyRPMDemQt-gfiCO0hGW14023T9AYf7dA89gLzwEvMRR8OeBerbcszI7k3c_5iSR7yKzRKE-/s200/001%20%20pots%20orzel%20adelaar%20salt%20and%20pep%20base.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="188" data-original-width="200" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCmlAvEk99zppcmTeghZsjeZY-jjSjBE8Ygi_JiYDwwqC_FkmcVjnQHAYxAxjKcBVwrAspQuniqXRdOTge1OxEnQR3MjeEHgOoALd7Dm7zouyS3tnhSyRPMDemQt-gfiCO0hGW14023T9AYf7dA89gLzwEvMRR8OeBerbcszI7k3c_5iSR7yKzRKE-/s1600/001%20%20pots%20orzel%20adelaar%20salt%20and%20pep%20base.jpg" width="200" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiW0p_GNhuTVG4wNIPw9QrXkyiPrvwL8GUita_bJ60NqFhquwisEQGY1JHe70iLdqkMvayJdjqiTzPixMQeUydcqAjHgrAkCo7KS5E2_Jen5m_wYn6kwTiAnw1uCuEU6VTprg5y5WrdhR-ycMz6Ts1CwS2d5d8052KSybfgtH5CLuMtSKeLqrZFPjT/s200/001%20%20pots%20orzel%20adelaar%20salt%20and%20pep.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="186" data-original-width="200" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiW0p_GNhuTVG4wNIPw9QrXkyiPrvwL8GUita_bJ60NqFhquwisEQGY1JHe70iLdqkMvayJdjqiTzPixMQeUydcqAjHgrAkCo7KS5E2_Jen5m_wYn6kwTiAnw1uCuEU6VTprg5y5WrdhR-ycMz6Ts1CwS2d5d8052KSybfgtH5CLuMtSKeLqrZFPjT/s1600/001%20%20pots%20orzel%20adelaar%20salt%20and%20pep.jpg" width="200" /></a><br /></p><p>Adelaar Craft Potteries</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2ykUZrGeo9GFNum9Lgvjd1_RCKrK8R_1NDdrRlYCHQHv5L3HhMezKd9-q463EgviX3xt0bLQd4Vm2xfXlPZAiUrzLr8SPYGt0VGQV3chcra6dUeMMEFfKXMOscSQaZrJFezFuzSTu0ar0--0ioDGI7AiEiWXym95dEJTQLnn8692HUnw7xhVLM8h6/s200/002%20pots%20orzel%20adelaar%20craft%20potteries%20mark%202.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="196" data-original-width="200" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2ykUZrGeo9GFNum9Lgvjd1_RCKrK8R_1NDdrRlYCHQHv5L3HhMezKd9-q463EgviX3xt0bLQd4Vm2xfXlPZAiUrzLr8SPYGt0VGQV3chcra6dUeMMEFfKXMOscSQaZrJFezFuzSTu0ar0--0ioDGI7AiEiWXym95dEJTQLnn8692HUnw7xhVLM8h6/s1600/002%20pots%20orzel%20adelaar%20craft%20potteries%20mark%202.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQcOYNzsZHiCq2wawaBUnOjYt-f0WXLFJcOfAvEOBsKMhgh17jJA4lhGXytde6lCxTkI6M_LLRJtPerLVmRCBt2nLJI_9gk366Zd_h4AOgnoQbylh169C3FGVUFjZh48ELHzd_I_eG_vezpl8F1OOPMDjpDbS22P2EVQDPBWbBC9OA4ntk-TmqCfiZ/s215/002%20%20Potrs%20orzel%20adelaar%20craft%20potteries%20bathroom%20mug.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="215" data-original-width="200" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQcOYNzsZHiCq2wawaBUnOjYt-f0WXLFJcOfAvEOBsKMhgh17jJA4lhGXytde6lCxTkI6M_LLRJtPerLVmRCBt2nLJI_9gk366Zd_h4AOgnoQbylh169C3FGVUFjZh48ELHzd_I_eG_vezpl8F1OOPMDjpDbS22P2EVQDPBWbBC9OA4ntk-TmqCfiZ/s1600/002%20%20Potrs%20orzel%20adelaar%20craft%20potteries%20bathroom%20mug.jpg" width="200" /></a><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>Adelaar Craft Potteries (circular)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPpQNwVmSxWNwDtHEUjFR8nYIe_N5OZ4ndCe8nF6ZRr90XcstTGruUXnO-g00_4GQ76vHHtuiNgtSxmdYFxt9gSs70CuDeHAxKMJzfS0sAZcvyTUBsz_NnAe1WG-k2sdmt_8QxR9raWRQf48fRI8L0fCqohWr98LMSU4N7fXlReHFYENgIPED9k3Rx/s200/003%20Pots%20adelaar%20craft%20potteries%20circular%20mark.jpg" style="clear: left; 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This also shows the Friar Tuck imprint from the Sherwood Forest series</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAeZ0A21YvA8BHq39TG51EE5pHOr_to3JdYuqCG28zqbHktTi6Xy3YB-FrQKH7s9eLazN_ndi526_6Loqzwy3ZMDwoR70jd8Cl6JY_1O5Et5SNi2WCvVN3HP5zyn-5qB6HiVJzmdrxRn21sPTOU9B81w97CZN-1y5fYREhPpUkRB08RocKsIPWunO3/s200/005%20pots%20orzel%20friar%20tuck%20aquila.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="141" data-original-width="200" height="141" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAeZ0A21YvA8BHq39TG51EE5pHOr_to3JdYuqCG28zqbHktTi6Xy3YB-FrQKH7s9eLazN_ndi526_6Loqzwy3ZMDwoR70jd8Cl6JY_1O5Et5SNi2WCvVN3HP5zyn-5qB6HiVJzmdrxRn21sPTOU9B81w97CZN-1y5fYREhPpUkRB08RocKsIPWunO3/s1600/005%20pots%20orzel%20friar%20tuck%20aquila.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq0TLA_mXUllxBPFyjfhaH-EM9hzfcq9PaDLmFmGPeMwHSYjK8aG4g6FvMTke-Zs6980ray6PczITMvXFnOV5LuDwH9tds_4cDx5iT9msW19W76e7Tif_nQ-vx1XDZKrOLsMF0EdfXkixYewASKMmMSf6HOlVHBFB7715ZGaVWVGjPyTasB6fHZXlD/s237/005%20pots%20orzel%20friar%20tuck.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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(Images courtesy Andrea Aldern-Smith)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB86IzrFzH3mIi6GG9-P93RWJMpckYTw3PrafLsmMatDdTK3Yg7FjXqCHAs8p8IddV6Q2wXgQXX495N6ZGH0b1bAEvxn_BsKlfDZxDN4-zbffKrIb-ogcjW1WqdVkgPQzg4wQovcBFlVPd_8rFBeeWxSFsiPKKtQVQFDMinLA2cXTjr5TUPVnScAnK/s200/008%20%20Aquila%20bowl%20from%20Haselnuss%20mark.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="125" data-original-width="200" height="125" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB86IzrFzH3mIi6GG9-P93RWJMpckYTw3PrafLsmMatDdTK3Yg7FjXqCHAs8p8IddV6Q2wXgQXX495N6ZGH0b1bAEvxn_BsKlfDZxDN4-zbffKrIb-ogcjW1WqdVkgPQzg4wQovcBFlVPd_8rFBeeWxSFsiPKKtQVQFDMinLA2cXTjr5TUPVnScAnK/s1600/008%20%20Aquila%20bowl%20from%20Haselnuss%20mark.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLdWuNEHxXrTzw6OADxLUTvuR3pX_Nd_7cJYU4EsQuQUm6K2FLjpQOxPW1gk3h3dtl63fyWKFh42rU2jMyVY7ZFlGSCXustXznD6gtPRQW-r2XxAwickoKrYDwA2LKHhViqh8Qmy6bLsmbI1wdSBMOkK20RRwhDRTk5OdeRy0hnf7_C31jysWfQl0A/s200/008%20%20Aquila%20bowl%20from%20Haselnuss.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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(Images courtesy Louise de Varga)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBykyHXfH_xPepkYQTcvbfCWjtk-YkjcqLmiDgdzmjuztI0E_jsXBwUqDuRCQhKFzWpOG2xE4RBY9PNwYxfNlLl_NCH1G_9sJfls46KmyhKZC1_3ys5HIm6V8MAEq9N3z81etkUAG9iscPOgjpzmPP_sWA9aVP8ReT4IE9mkamrqCcP9e6oZ-XMyHD/s219/011%20Louise%20de%20v%20egyptian.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="219" data-original-width="200" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBykyHXfH_xPepkYQTcvbfCWjtk-YkjcqLmiDgdzmjuztI0E_jsXBwUqDuRCQhKFzWpOG2xE4RBY9PNwYxfNlLl_NCH1G_9sJfls46KmyhKZC1_3ys5HIm6V8MAEq9N3z81etkUAG9iscPOgjpzmPP_sWA9aVP8ReT4IE9mkamrqCcP9e6oZ-XMyHD/s1600/011%20Louise%20de%20v%20egyptian.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><p>BIC (on ballpoint pen holder)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZYJtRspUgUz45yGCDwFB4QJEkW7_fb1XXAzkz8LAZSBnlmhXHbNpPkcj6LGL9qkL5I4DNBgYtnppDz8czhcloUkrt0DGXR-OBIoVx75PStdhBz69i_CT0lmj1vBwv8CBKxAO6z1on4UWkqO3s-ogHfKRg7daVUBZWqO5UVsanD24a70CzSwt2yxGH/s200/012%20%20Pots%20Orzel%20adelaar%20craft%20potteries%20bic%20mark.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="138" data-original-width="200" height="138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZYJtRspUgUz45yGCDwFB4QJEkW7_fb1XXAzkz8LAZSBnlmhXHbNpPkcj6LGL9qkL5I4DNBgYtnppDz8czhcloUkrt0DGXR-OBIoVx75PStdhBz69i_CT0lmj1vBwv8CBKxAO6z1on4UWkqO3s-ogHfKRg7daVUBZWqO5UVsanD24a70CzSwt2yxGH/s1600/012%20%20Pots%20Orzel%20adelaar%20craft%20potteries%20bic%20mark.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqL0DRYlAgdmM7mh-JjQITztugXBaKF-pkDqAatZehKzUcBt_OPb-z9fkZfAF4Nrymtg5oy7leVdXCRU8bDahDpxLVJGId4ZW42V8WcoPqmBjKRzgScqPshBuKF6TFPHaE8MqfE8Nxk6fBRMN39fuqqwdwi_ACkc4_BPrANIvsYb_6-OM-VNdujGFg/s227/012%20%20Pots%20orzel%20bic%20holder.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="227" data-original-width="200" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqL0DRYlAgdmM7mh-JjQITztugXBaKF-pkDqAatZehKzUcBt_OPb-z9fkZfAF4Nrymtg5oy7leVdXCRU8bDahDpxLVJGId4ZW42V8WcoPqmBjKRzgScqPshBuKF6TFPHaE8MqfE8Nxk6fBRMN39fuqqwdwi_ACkc4_BPrANIvsYb_6-OM-VNdujGFg/s1600/012%20%20Pots%20orzel%20bic%20holder.jpg" width="200" /></a><br /><p>Hand crafted in New Zealand</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ3cHlsMp9p5I-kBxz19gcUoZi_CteSimCNnmJ4HiVcBouCjyx2f11RwbjeXyPjJwV4GG3OSqfadif-1rHaQVsIr9iDYf465QZ14X6DtkkmziFCeCXALmGAcjEFcYjShIVe20mShzVQap1J-E76RprvIOLetfg1iRhFy_qfV3ekvyL4X88ZbZGtRuA/s200/013%20pots%20orzel%20hand%20crafted%20mark.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="197" data-original-width="200" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ3cHlsMp9p5I-kBxz19gcUoZi_CteSimCNnmJ4HiVcBouCjyx2f11RwbjeXyPjJwV4GG3OSqfadif-1rHaQVsIr9iDYf465QZ14X6DtkkmziFCeCXALmGAcjEFcYjShIVe20mShzVQap1J-E76RprvIOLetfg1iRhFy_qfV3ekvyL4X88ZbZGtRuA/s1600/013%20pots%20orzel%20hand%20crafted%20mark.jpg" width="200" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdGBHt9QeZk-41Ti13yLbrMK7CxuviuQEw0mC7nVu3uuUied7o8c7DWdAv24J45uFejonrvqUsaIAAQzUtbio8_fhDRIfrUKjOGLDkBlIl1uwxuGnIU-UCuynIrj0G17G432Jqe9ejI7sh061gbLIBEKmpjbKFRU3KBs4J1ma-dKnsui6GVnpSDvYM/s204/013%20pots%20orzel%20hand%20crafted%20mark%20on%20pot.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="204" data-original-width="200" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdGBHt9QeZk-41Ti13yLbrMK7CxuviuQEw0mC7nVu3uuUied7o8c7DWdAv24J45uFejonrvqUsaIAAQzUtbio8_fhDRIfrUKjOGLDkBlIl1uwxuGnIU-UCuynIrj0G17G432Jqe9ejI7sh061gbLIBEKmpjbKFRU3KBs4J1ma-dKnsui6GVnpSDvYM/s1600/013%20pots%20orzel%20hand%20crafted%20mark%20on%20pot.jpg" width="200" /></a><br /><p><br /></p><p>Hemara Ware. These Irish coffee mugs were made for a Dominion Breweries promotion. It is not known why some were marked with Hemara's name. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHwqFAJsfFd6LRnXX2jJml9wBhdsMTAo_Vc9rPDGTUXnix5j3p-JrCQZJriVRYVLiTQ1uWgWxMJW5NTXXoNsFYRDyhAIW6MXuv7oJs0KKHNbjnnAiXbRo_ROqLwuI_xaRiZWkhthRneZst4zFogbWSBvcvdQJRoDwNY1zlnztG3eN3bpRfabSj3m3E/s229/014%20Pots%20orzel%20hemara%20ware%20mark.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="229" data-original-width="200" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHwqFAJsfFd6LRnXX2jJml9wBhdsMTAo_Vc9rPDGTUXnix5j3p-JrCQZJriVRYVLiTQ1uWgWxMJW5NTXXoNsFYRDyhAIW6MXuv7oJs0KKHNbjnnAiXbRo_ROqLwuI_xaRiZWkhthRneZst4zFogbWSBvcvdQJRoDwNY1zlnztG3eN3bpRfabSj3m3E/s1600/014%20Pots%20orzel%20hemara%20ware%20mark.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikPUWIPuXh_VC2Bmd8QHdJBSATjvMOXPS8Cs-KWVL_NtSzmtL8VuOYi7Npl6w6HgCbAZQy-00J3s19QCN9pRRXIah7_IOQVSPf0yaGyNLKAtrI1tJi6VgH334O1U460M0Tdeynqs07O3zNkOsKni-0MWdijOyMSMp72MFwflb0T3IG1qQNaXkBQXYW/s200/014%20Pots%20orzxel%20hemara%20ware%20mug%20and%20another.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: left;">Made in New Zealand 285ml</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWkZ3wDuziTN5CWI0rJNe6gy47rvOFxEI_WXGtSFWEeqXBdr9W-GlK42gwBi1np6dH9BuZcw00oO9WQUW_zVtikj53v-ZqAbejc4IF4MHL7eR0-wvXi59fH2jGcOlVCjNT-MuI8syDH6_bwADoSF8tUSiR_aojp0SjAr8jjcfaHMaTdI8wG3uEED9d/s200/016%20pots%20orzel%20285%20mark.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="170" data-original-width="200" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWkZ3wDuziTN5CWI0rJNe6gy47rvOFxEI_WXGtSFWEeqXBdr9W-GlK42gwBi1np6dH9BuZcw00oO9WQUW_zVtikj53v-ZqAbejc4IF4MHL7eR0-wvXi59fH2jGcOlVCjNT-MuI8syDH6_bwADoSF8tUSiR_aojp0SjAr8jjcfaHMaTdI8wG3uEED9d/s1600/016%20pots%20orzel%20285%20mark.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJTxorllpS6fx4Njzv4yqaIHkUR_b1qSM68cVgvV50bk2V3V6HYxLy1IOUIp33ENANOtA6QdNRodL57PI_AxzEbY2gytvBz83jS6mqHBGTzxYgLX5YUSSn0YmJZnNagNMekT672UF0lnZ12LwFIZoGle_PMnB_bM1g5InfyWCYAnHtbu6CWcC74Ddz/s200/016%20pots%20orzel%20285%20mark%20on%20stein.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="181" data-original-width="200" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJTxorllpS6fx4Njzv4yqaIHkUR_b1qSM68cVgvV50bk2V3V6HYxLy1IOUIp33ENANOtA6QdNRodL57PI_AxzEbY2gytvBz83jS6mqHBGTzxYgLX5YUSSn0YmJZnNagNMekT672UF0lnZ12LwFIZoGle_PMnB_bM1g5InfyWCYAnHtbu6CWcC74Ddz/s1600/016%20pots%20orzel%20285%20mark%20on%20stein.jpg" width="200" /></a><br /><p>New Zealand (diagonal)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiOg1GuwcWBxNuyLoXIV6goOONCrdewGuIS9oxYOy7X5iHid43TtZNWsFxb8CWLitjQ8s5zH5WNonBSRvSgR784wD7UGcgA6BKaksVv0ZpxZeE9A0LxAIYo4ihZe7MOa0xml-p1s0t79JhBK3GySRuV5svI_5qfWhgiplYqy3vqPsiRZcpuGOrct6s/s200/017%20pots%20orzel%20new%20zealand%20mark%20diagonal.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="184" data-original-width="200" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiOg1GuwcWBxNuyLoXIV6goOONCrdewGuIS9oxYOy7X5iHid43TtZNWsFxb8CWLitjQ8s5zH5WNonBSRvSgR784wD7UGcgA6BKaksVv0ZpxZeE9A0LxAIYo4ihZe7MOa0xml-p1s0t79JhBK3GySRuV5svI_5qfWhgiplYqy3vqPsiRZcpuGOrct6s/s1600/017%20pots%20orzel%20new%20zealand%20mark%20diagonal.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBhym6_-3cH4qZdz1zR9PdElsXQVwJszSe8SUVgiPRw8TND-FcyAW2HGEj8fM6rjq9PaWlHT_q90eLyKbDPOwu5ufhXdgnQDCaXQfWojMoRA6bKhxtOHMfKRzQDt9obhdjYe8tCbQf1MX29NlGv16PCl4Cyvgr26oR8lsyMtApXEHjvw5ixeBN8LTZ/s208/017%20pots%20orzel%20new%20zealand%20mark%20diagonal%20on%20pot.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="208" data-original-width="200" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBhym6_-3cH4qZdz1zR9PdElsXQVwJszSe8SUVgiPRw8TND-FcyAW2HGEj8fM6rjq9PaWlHT_q90eLyKbDPOwu5ufhXdgnQDCaXQfWojMoRA6bKhxtOHMfKRzQDt9obhdjYe8tCbQf1MX29NlGv16PCl4Cyvgr26oR8lsyMtApXEHjvw5ixeBN8LTZ/s1600/017%20pots%20orzel%20new%20zealand%20mark%20diagonal%20on%20pot.jpg" width="200" /></a><br /><p>Orzel (cursive)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2oeXulHY4a4VJhlsd4rKA8Z1caaxISVnoiYaOJmtJd9cihQctbENH9IWk6KZCAE0JvJllv1h2ZXA7ca87DHd9omYIx_XSrBYuGLdxkwKeJquNGYPfPOHinkD85wmgIJaaUNXf6aXMYefywjfyLMfNVLCMNY1B0VXIVtlV5SLctk8oZh0Pxtq0zTEu/s200/018pots%20orzel%20cursive%20mark.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="96" data-original-width="200" height="96" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2oeXulHY4a4VJhlsd4rKA8Z1caaxISVnoiYaOJmtJd9cihQctbENH9IWk6KZCAE0JvJllv1h2ZXA7ca87DHd9omYIx_XSrBYuGLdxkwKeJquNGYPfPOHinkD85wmgIJaaUNXf6aXMYefywjfyLMfNVLCMNY1B0VXIVtlV5SLctk8oZh0Pxtq0zTEu/s1600/018pots%20orzel%20cursive%20mark.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhXPCU49YT1mPh-dPX0ijggZyHYzigym5kTnzvrsycB7CMR3rlfJh8Rh4JFb4ruyHzIpQqER__gpIojvtOWV63FukxZ0OjgP3EXJcJYPnnKhwmVaG55gZyAR5Dh1_bA3GncezbT-SFpYnMBAkd-VkbwfGMK0OrCD_NERfdNDoEzmcZvGdZgPYk_Ekp/s237/018%20pots%20orzel%20cursive%20mark%20on%20stein.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="237" data-original-width="200" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhXPCU49YT1mPh-dPX0ijggZyHYzigym5kTnzvrsycB7CMR3rlfJh8Rh4JFb4ruyHzIpQqER__gpIojvtOWV63FukxZ0OjgP3EXJcJYPnnKhwmVaG55gZyAR5Dh1_bA3GncezbT-SFpYnMBAkd-VkbwfGMK0OrCD_NERfdNDoEzmcZvGdZgPYk_Ekp/s1600/018%20pots%20orzel%20cursive%20mark%20on%20stein.jpg" width="200" /></a><br /><p>Orzel (impressed with shape numbers and letters)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw6ykSiq-YmXgsws8VTzDVnyw8rjP_TIP5FQw_WZ1kzr6jBKZecYRiJwzGkVEERkoU7hMKT9dbQ0E_CIUePskIRGe0lmZzJkwHPreSoUauSKTLv_sYM4vQYqHsrFTHekIJesusLc6z_Hr_8RD7Y19m23mvnD6UASz-7prMEiujQl6LbXFD6aV2JHdv/s200/019%20Orzel%20plus%20shape%20number.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="182" data-original-width="200" height="182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw6ykSiq-YmXgsws8VTzDVnyw8rjP_TIP5FQw_WZ1kzr6jBKZecYRiJwzGkVEERkoU7hMKT9dbQ0E_CIUePskIRGe0lmZzJkwHPreSoUauSKTLv_sYM4vQYqHsrFTHekIJesusLc6z_Hr_8RD7Y19m23mvnD6UASz-7prMEiujQl6LbXFD6aV2JHdv/s1600/019%20Orzel%20plus%20shape%20number.jpg" width="200" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlmi2RyPFo0PDNA_D535yRWQz8nUGzxhkVhJ9y5wT7KEcobgEsPa2puv804fTr2k-d7WBBdyFxYwwy5GOlkwNUgldD-U1n4WA1lBWj3_A-TwDBIXwXrQNneS2vNkAN3tdgHjyCLdBA_YW0-UhMQxRAc4UfKF5xSvLFK-4GozXNrNK7r8dRoMU89Qo1/s200/019%20orzel%20plus%20shape%20number%20jug.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="181" data-original-width="200" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlmi2RyPFo0PDNA_D535yRWQz8nUGzxhkVhJ9y5wT7KEcobgEsPa2puv804fTr2k-d7WBBdyFxYwwy5GOlkwNUgldD-U1n4WA1lBWj3_A-TwDBIXwXrQNneS2vNkAN3tdgHjyCLdBA_YW0-UhMQxRAc4UfKF5xSvLFK-4GozXNrNK7r8dRoMU89Qo1/s1600/019%20orzel%20plus%20shape%20number%20jug.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>Orzel (impressed)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtdnCR2sS5GvCAmuQ7jXsd-k8Rye4JtxhnoSaRg-w3cBrAGz1n_9ypHEsMxur3_kGIGab01Xd2jP_aCrSPe43HsxjcJu6uh9w58RYc8qXxvBMRJmn3UE1ohucPU2r0AfZM-T7_4qvYiWgFGfH0oVs0-y_yrz3WtvqkMjqi4yN_Pb8hW-J8PpCOimD3/s300/020%20pots%20orzel%20blue%20casserole%20mark.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="148" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtdnCR2sS5GvCAmuQ7jXsd-k8Rye4JtxhnoSaRg-w3cBrAGz1n_9ypHEsMxur3_kGIGab01Xd2jP_aCrSPe43HsxjcJu6uh9w58RYc8qXxvBMRJmn3UE1ohucPU2r0AfZM-T7_4qvYiWgFGfH0oVs0-y_yrz3WtvqkMjqi4yN_Pb8hW-J8PpCOimD3/s1600/020%20pots%20orzel%20blue%20casserole%20mark.jpg" width="148" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvT1P5tLsLYzpAeCTpBhulbDrGUim_PAYp8KbXSvQ2a0ETrSqbF9R41HbTnmnGLcs66P8iVOc5AAst4FjFHxlEWKLxY8sq0cwVZaOX0PdReiQRqcpcfGxxt008rC-JIg9sJvHzilrQiCbMJAAdo8LnhfhcUGNnidHjuT__qeIm5rQMOLkgEapoc2AM/s200/020%20pots%20orzel%20blue%20casserole.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="201" data-original-width="200" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCfkVsvVFxsprMIWVahW-B6oNGjp8BtLVFdWRB8VNN9zZ9bWnSRk4d2HhS3or6NkEtCBqzSdrj1Rw2TryZ-Xlwo3SxNodCF09Uxi-2A2aVpZ8nurtkuedF9NosPuaBWKOaRa_E2H1K8OVXzxDzFuIaao2Y3n-QE61q5ZRtcffoHos2Q02ribfqmUVB/s1600/030%20%20pots%20orzel%20flat%20base%20blue%20mug.jpg" width="200" /></a><br /><p>Unmarked (glazed base) Note that there are many, many unmarked pieces of Orzel, with wide variations in glaze and foot shape. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3H1JCuRINeHe6jWP0FVqRLnjO_wJBKapVVVb8JAJnTlJz_p1PoSff-yvstCoA_QlVnHLvBEsWZKZHZDRAN3mIGETXh-MpVFwkPa615ke8D0Qka0CrOZFx5S6YP5Ncq5itxPkBOREDzO-rf63v9sVjwY9oxIYBB5iMFnMnxp61ObK2xzJiBMq6_pxW/s200/031%20glazed%20base.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="188" data-original-width="200" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3H1JCuRINeHe6jWP0FVqRLnjO_wJBKapVVVb8JAJnTlJz_p1PoSff-yvstCoA_QlVnHLvBEsWZKZHZDRAN3mIGETXh-MpVFwkPa615ke8D0Qka0CrOZFx5S6YP5Ncq5itxPkBOREDzO-rf63v9sVjwY9oxIYBB5iMFnMnxp61ObK2xzJiBMq6_pxW/s1600/031%20glazed%20base.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfstg_TT84-uAGPw9NhUs-6BUiNhv_I4AE34WnnV5dodAV6o2FxVwfeN05ndsMETsMT0tIvr888oUZRWC5psCqrOG2GsfAQV3A7WPo5HPd9ND1X3voZRalxIPmW3n9Bc0BDdl6_ld4lXQJX3gw66my3U1qW_g-RAKd8IYfR8etclFZzJEplCJh72iH/s307/031%20glazed%20base%20bottle.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="307" data-original-width="200" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfstg_TT84-uAGPw9NhUs-6BUiNhv_I4AE34WnnV5dodAV6o2FxVwfeN05ndsMETsMT0tIvr888oUZRWC5psCqrOG2GsfAQV3A7WPo5HPd9ND1X3voZRalxIPmW3n9Bc0BDdl6_ld4lXQJX3gw66my3U1qW_g-RAKd8IYfR8etclFZzJEplCJh72iH/s1600/031%20glazed%20base%20bottle.jpg" width="200" /></a><br /><p>Unmarked (raffia glued on base). This is seen on various NZ-made lamp bases. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf2HKoxlKcdQuxIeRh_x8AkshdcH3WRo1B_kuaJeRzwY1Fv-eZOuT672fc5l6B-fOtysf2W-6UBUeNLZblp-kFJ12oUXwzpplpSCXLc7ztY_M5apVnd3CFEQwNLi42Q55FqKkVS3kouFzRr7zl0JrzmPrMNcoOX3tFBpM4e5Zts-IV6notxs0ewaJd/s200/032%20pots%20orzel%20lamp%20base%20base.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="171" data-original-width="200" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf2HKoxlKcdQuxIeRh_x8AkshdcH3WRo1B_kuaJeRzwY1Fv-eZOuT672fc5l6B-fOtysf2W-6UBUeNLZblp-kFJ12oUXwzpplpSCXLc7ztY_M5apVnd3CFEQwNLi42Q55FqKkVS3kouFzRr7zl0JrzmPrMNcoOX3tFBpM4e5Zts-IV6notxs0ewaJd/s1600/032%20pots%20orzel%20lamp%20base%20base.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6e8AUfvPJENrTyGQfeI_MbgZg8MFyz0QVRhqy4iveJoZPQQRXidzr6F6oxJDG1A0geJ4aqsd7H0YFiku1fusQ7HW-sumgUq2g5qKG-pZJtcX2m1KR9K8NClkfYEDgyvdkSwFf6kFyTtsPjqvOxITYTiXqQGMgU46_xGVOclSUglqV0Xsf6mGDNFFD/s271/032%20pots%20orzel%20lamp%20base.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="271" data-original-width="200" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6e8AUfvPJENrTyGQfeI_MbgZg8MFyz0QVRhqy4iveJoZPQQRXidzr6F6oxJDG1A0geJ4aqsd7H0YFiku1fusQ7HW-sumgUq2g5qKG-pZJtcX2m1KR9K8NClkfYEDgyvdkSwFf6kFyTtsPjqvOxITYTiXqQGMgU46_xGVOclSUglqV0Xsf6mGDNFFD/s1600/032%20pots%20orzel%20lamp%20base.jpg" width="200" /></a><br /><p>Unmarked, unglazed base showing fettling knife marks. Many Orzel pieces show distinctive marks where they have been 'tidied up' with a fettling knife while still damp after they have come out of the mould. </p><p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwsBxZH3YjJ0_2CHKJHkXyyx_8yB5hW-Hp_w06fn1zO1ggt1GkQM2bm_HjZ7IAKTbe5cwUczNX9NUJ32WrrxucRSUJkZjo0mw1ETT3XO5gW1QPAwK2g1WoWmFCrznt7JXjbLPmBQHWP6mBA9-ynIfPX6PkRgRQxC13J95nC2IlC7_AYYlibis3EIw7/s200/033%20Unglazed%20base%20showing%20fettling.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="139" data-original-width="200" height="139" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwsBxZH3YjJ0_2CHKJHkXyyx_8yB5hW-Hp_w06fn1zO1ggt1GkQM2bm_HjZ7IAKTbe5cwUczNX9NUJ32WrrxucRSUJkZjo0mw1ETT3XO5gW1QPAwK2g1WoWmFCrznt7JXjbLPmBQHWP6mBA9-ynIfPX6PkRgRQxC13J95nC2IlC7_AYYlibis3EIw7/s1600/033%20Unglazed%20base%20showing%20fettling.jpg" width="200" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFp4gr43cDvIkOq6gANNTbka2MwNhkWpwmK9EJC47agJ0X_qsrbK9NBlurIklvnEpNxfFD_EZ7Iu-I4FOWu8HzcH2BLOm_RvW7DYl4ybDrRzVUaHt8VXp2QJj1ng4KueAEXklMGxY4BJqMGCmf-cvFK2CtYrOTKHjcBLFQHoUddgEMbUl5KjCE3OdV/s200/033%20unglazed%20base%20showing%20fettling%20spoon%20rest.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="140" data-original-width="200" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFp4gr43cDvIkOq6gANNTbka2MwNhkWpwmK9EJC47agJ0X_qsrbK9NBlurIklvnEpNxfFD_EZ7Iu-I4FOWu8HzcH2BLOm_RvW7DYl4ybDrRzVUaHt8VXp2QJj1ng4KueAEXklMGxY4BJqMGCmf-cvFK2CtYrOTKHjcBLFQHoUddgEMbUl5KjCE3OdV/s1600/033%20unglazed%20base%20showing%20fettling%20spoon%20rest.jpg" width="200" /></a></p><br /><p><b>ORZEL INDUSTRIES TIMELINE</b></p><p><u>The three Cameron Browns</u></p><p>The Brown family tree can be confusing because there are three Cameron Browns. Cam Senior and his wife Dorothy – both now deceased – are the parents of Cam Jnr. Cam Jnr and his wife Beverley have a son who is also named Cam.</p><p><br /></p><p>From 1951-1968 the Brown family made pottery, mainly under various configurations of the Titian brand. Their Titian Pottery – at that stage based in Takanini - was bought out by Crown Lynn in 1968/1969.</p><p>1969 – the brand name Orzel was used for the first time when the Brown family began making pottery in their basement at home in Papakura. </p><p>1972 – The Brown family established Orzel Industries in Firth St in Drury</p><p>1978/79 – Chris Brown established his Hobby Ceramics business alongside Orzel. He also ran a kiln business, Eagle Kilns.</p><p>1980s – Settlers Collection range released</p><p>Mid-1980s – Orzel had about 40 staff. Peak production. Selling to The Warehouse chain and Deka. </p><p>1985/86 Chris Brown sold his Hobby Ceramics business</p><p>1994 Dorothy Brown died and the family attempted to sell the business. The sale fell through.</p><p>1997 Chris Brown left the family business and moved out of Auckland. Eagle Kilns and Hobby Ceramics had both faded by this time. </p><p>late 1990s Cam Jnr fell ill, the Drury factory was vacated and the family downsized to their home-based Sherwood Potteries.</p><p>2002 Cameron Brown Snr died</p><p><b>ENDS</b></p><p> Much of the information in this post has come from Gail Henry’s book “New Zealand Pottery, Commercial and Collectable” and from my interviews with Cameron Brown Jnr and his wife Beverley and the late Chris Brown.</p><p>Ev Williams has also made a major contribution, personally and through her New Zealand Pottery website.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Val Monkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11564133844683942529noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2880978462637000167.post-49673938680950635702023-01-14T16:33:00.290+13:002023-03-30T10:33:18.283+13:00<p><b style="font-size: x-large;">Kevin Kilsby </b></p><p><i style="text-align: center;">Kevin began his ceramic career with one-off art pieces, then became a prolific producer of garden pukeko birds, cartoon ware and Kiwiana. And now he's back to making one-off art pieces. </i></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXZHw6qTDMAZGmzdXi71Z451-D3HxOL80mW9wA3OcAWdeVZzt4wrj_9aS6qm-e5h0oOZqbNBwE_DCGnqq5811inZRHevtojgdeboZOJmj299wu-yH64-VGiOEfXI8WtxWg6WaLw8hArHlyZmaBM8i3toZ6xzVUNrweVii2S8lFIrqg9KhSIUJn0IZa/s2328/Kilsby%20three%20teapots%20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1055" data-original-width="2328" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXZHw6qTDMAZGmzdXi71Z451-D3HxOL80mW9wA3OcAWdeVZzt4wrj_9aS6qm-e5h0oOZqbNBwE_DCGnqq5811inZRHevtojgdeboZOJmj299wu-yH64-VGiOEfXI8WtxWg6WaLw8hArHlyZmaBM8i3toZ6xzVUNrweVii2S8lFIrqg9KhSIUJn0IZa/w640-h290/Kilsby%20three%20teapots%20.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Above: three teapots that have recently come my way. From left, the popular cat images, the early Grapes and Oranges pattern, and a one-off design featuring dice. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGpO3BTe23wt372OOpjpdXuy1mDQEOnqCLo6WQwq-vuU4Gg6KPsEp7WuBYoQ8wpy4VtN9ux50lXXmrtaQlP2qwR4Nvlc5xDLybfvzhJxYjUCmA7SzYTmcwvCfKvtzFXi5L6P5YIcW5XGuaBNOmUMXCuGK40dOzPpI1UCqQF3Fw3r50IDCp7tE5ahhQ/s309/Kevin%20Kilsby%20pic.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="309" data-original-width="250" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGpO3BTe23wt372OOpjpdXuy1mDQEOnqCLo6WQwq-vuU4Gg6KPsEp7WuBYoQ8wpy4VtN9ux50lXXmrtaQlP2qwR4Nvlc5xDLybfvzhJxYjUCmA7SzYTmcwvCfKvtzFXi5L6P5YIcW5XGuaBNOmUMXCuGK40dOzPpI1UCqQF3Fw3r50IDCp7tE5ahhQ/w324-h400/Kevin%20Kilsby%20pic.jpg" width="324" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Kevin Kilsby in his garden in Mt Albert, Auckland. <span style="font-size: x-small;">Image Kevin Kilsby</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i style="text-align: left;">“I saw this infinite magical potential in the clay, it was just tactile and permanent and vast and I saw these ancient pieces of pottery that were still looking amazing after sometimes thousands of years… once I started into clay that was that”</i></div><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal">Kevin Kilsby is widely known as ‘the pukeko guy’ – in the
last 30 years he has sold hundreds of thousands of these quirky garden
sculptures, along with a prolific line in seagulls, pigeons, tui, kiwi, piwakawaka
(fantail) and ruru (morepork). He also makes
a range of colourful mugs, jugs, vases, teapots and tiles featuring kiwiana themes, cartoon
characters, cats, and native plants and flowers. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc45XPNPeK3ij1FkDCzh4FsMEHFAjBf8bgNDcNqzG9TjWZ5DI_2btIzPNljjwHlksBz04leeWWViLG7ZRw5N5NqktGejMHVcrbruOwsoaugER3h_1n5dMEd8vxua8BMakEyAu5bqRK589OuT3aUxf3rfAAjF9i0fiPEZxEFWfIkrEayeVw1YQN1urD/s1363/pukeko.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1363" data-original-width="1223" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc45XPNPeK3ij1FkDCzh4FsMEHFAjBf8bgNDcNqzG9TjWZ5DI_2btIzPNljjwHlksBz04leeWWViLG7ZRw5N5NqktGejMHVcrbruOwsoaugER3h_1n5dMEd8vxua8BMakEyAu5bqRK589OuT3aUxf3rfAAjF9i0fiPEZxEFWfIkrEayeVw1YQN1urD/w359-h400/pukeko.jpg" width="359" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;">Above: pukeko garden ornament.<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Image Kevin Kilsby </span></i></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">These days the pukeko still sell, but he is making more
one-off art pieces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His delight in the
New Zealand forest has inspired him to create detailed composite wall sculptures
with ceramic leaves, twigs and even tiny bugs, all glued securely together into
a harmonious whole. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Like many of his peers, Kevin took up pottery as a hobby in
the early 1980s. Still in his early 20s, he had gained a science degree
and settled into full-time work. With time on his hands he sought an outlet for his artistic talent. Kevin started off as
an art potter, making ceramic sculptures and learning from scratch about clay and
glazes. Some of the first pieces were sold to a gallery shop in Lower Queen Street. He describes his first visit as “A timid young potter walking in there with a box of stuff…” </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh23xK3An_6ulwXDCyCgc8VBZHaixfL97GFAStlEDvXuaDA_aWcv2XXHWaY9S_ACp4ofwsVmD3-g-YFixxGZC2k92Ji8q9YVxWtUOWLjIlDbEeboUiwfeuyxY1dqFFo_QhdA7IKJFpBBxHOZqN8W7xARnJT6InyyZzmBe4X_sk6GQ5cflEYYO4_aI_c/s2161/kilsby%20waka%20form.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1121" data-original-width="2161" height="332" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh23xK3An_6ulwXDCyCgc8VBZHaixfL97GFAStlEDvXuaDA_aWcv2XXHWaY9S_ACp4ofwsVmD3-g-YFixxGZC2k92Ji8q9YVxWtUOWLjIlDbEeboUiwfeuyxY1dqFFo_QhdA7IKJFpBBxHOZqN8W7xARnJT6InyyZzmBe4X_sk6GQ5cflEYYO4_aI_c/w640-h332/kilsby%20waka%20form.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Waka form with porcelain slip and oxides, from about1992. He had a similar piece in the Fletcher Challenge exhibition around that time. <span style="font-size: x-small;">Image Kevin Kilsby</span></i></div><p class="MsoNormal">Kevin’s one-off pieces sold well and attracted critical
interest, but they didn’t make a living. To speed up production he began slipcasting, decorating bowls and mugs and vases and plates in a distinctive
colourful hand-brushed style. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJaQwSiSzRKNFWRcFaV2DG69Gf7hkQmO45x3ac-kW4VGbfVjJvyEiNhwRaUfNQTU4T7JTuiTjRXOlkkkINYn57lUQJhaC4unHEcuiyte0WmwstEk2NQSLujgws6YPSbRBXVhSi-RLVJcg3eu9Qjkr7XTMk281cU3-TTJRdZnz8AQEHFnwzi27bbrZ0/s1999/Grapes%20and%20oranges.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1999" data-original-width="1378" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJaQwSiSzRKNFWRcFaV2DG69Gf7hkQmO45x3ac-kW4VGbfVjJvyEiNhwRaUfNQTU4T7JTuiTjRXOlkkkINYn57lUQJhaC4unHEcuiyte0WmwstEk2NQSLujgws6YPSbRBXVhSi-RLVJcg3eu9Qjkr7XTMk281cU3-TTJRdZnz8AQEHFnwzi27bbrZ0/w276-h400/Grapes%20and%20oranges.jpg" width="276" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Above: the first commercially successful pattern was 'Grapes and Oranges" - so named because it features those fruit. </i></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">By this time Kevin was lliving in Hamilton and working part time
at the Western Potters Supplies shop in Te Rapa. He had ready access to materials and after work and during quiet
periods he began slipcasting a few mugs, improvising a workbench out of piles of old pallets out the back. His
moulds were made by Auckland-based Bruce Yallop. At that time Quentin
Whitehouse owned Western Potters and on trips to Hamilton he was generous with advice
and encouragement for the young novice. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQVSgTw4UbEXhim7MHBcZssUYs14MvbByUINQ4JUFyBxR5L2dGDanW6czURnRQVxabLlBOGGXhrd8tEAls_STmyC2j7n6aYI_Ehvsn7TLUfd5weQMaleWYxsqA3H_LA6wklhYlsvJ1fc0LnV_sBhOjl4sCBu3QW5VbjAFkAdhWlXsMpYSVlOatzVrg/s2317/Persimmons.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2252" data-original-width="2317" height="389" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQVSgTw4UbEXhim7MHBcZssUYs14MvbByUINQ4JUFyBxR5L2dGDanW6czURnRQVxabLlBOGGXhrd8tEAls_STmyC2j7n6aYI_Ehvsn7TLUfd5weQMaleWYxsqA3H_LA6wklhYlsvJ1fc0LnV_sBhOjl4sCBu3QW5VbjAFkAdhWlXsMpYSVlOatzVrg/w400-h389/Persimmons.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Above: a fruit bowl featuring persimmons. This is a special piece. Only three were ever made</i></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">By the early 1980s, Western Potters was selling new coloured stains and Kevin took to them with great joy, decorating
his pieces with bright hand-brushed slips topped with durable clear glaze.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Production increased and two staff were recruited to keep up with demand. Right from
the early days, Kevin made sure that his work was marked – see the catalogue at the end of this post. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> A</o:p> Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council grant in 1992 enabled Kevin to buy
kilns and equipment, and build his first studio. From then through the mid to late 1990s he was making a
steady living,<span style="color: red;"> </span>with the Western Potters part-time job to
supplement his income from pottery. But then, - as he puts it - the mother bird
pushed him out of the nest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Quentin and
Cathy Whitehouse sold the Hamilton branch of their business, and the new owners
wanted to run it themselves.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Quite abruptly, Kevin found himself having to earn an income
from pottery alone. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1994 he and his
partner Brent<span style="color: red;"> </span>moved to Auckland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Kevin set up a workshop in a large bleak warehouse and they lived there
for a few months before finding a permanent home.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>At the new house, production quickly ramped up. A few
experimental pukeko garden ornaments sold like hot cakes, and before long he was
making thousands. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>Soon Kevin had nine staff, dotted all around the property
wherever he could find a workspace. For 12 years he also ran a busy shop in a
nearby commercial block. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By that stage
the team were making thousands of garden ornaments, birds, bowls, mugs and
vases decorated in Kilsby’s distinctive quirky humorous style, and selling
throughout New Zealand. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kiwiana was very
popular, especially Pohutukawa themes. Kevin created the original designs but
allowed each decorator to add their own subtle variations.</p><p class="MsoNormal">The business ran smoothly apart from a couple of hiccups when other potteries started copying his designs, and Kevin was forced to take legal action.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Ff4W0SwEVHl0avV3xSlUpepvgBoTyBzhDbY9VmSOFPNfACYs6U6zcwwyTHD56y3H8LIaNfgiLD6zX5RzkaBec16eqZ7pYLvVdSJaJVvpRdSAuG6wYg3Q-_Z_Sdf2lgggwP_zXqsMc60UP2C_aUOMgL2mQnIZClTDdwHoQOYIunHN0UdzYLnPdhGg/s2022/Cartoon%20multiple%202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1941" data-original-width="2022" height="614" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Ff4W0SwEVHl0avV3xSlUpepvgBoTyBzhDbY9VmSOFPNfACYs6U6zcwwyTHD56y3H8LIaNfgiLD6zX5RzkaBec16eqZ7pYLvVdSJaJVvpRdSAuG6wYg3Q-_Z_Sdf2lgggwP_zXqsMc60UP2C_aUOMgL2mQnIZClTDdwHoQOYIunHN0UdzYLnPdhGg/w640-h614/Cartoon%20multiple%202.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Above: Kilsby's cartoon figures were popular, and with humorous slogans they became even more so. Cat-themed ware also sold well, and still does to this day.</i></div><p class="MsoNormal"><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf4CiaWVgxDWNyu4cPjcrO0eSEgB90MuUT7Y5m3jaI2J39x6_fYVnKYCBgey6NXt4cvHSjPsbrTAMFy1dB-DGRRubjra7PcqFcC4ESTQEQoY3HC5-KxaHZ9F80kCpGAgzOEVmya6ObvGjnwl3vmp3qkFqINlN1rqenqXt4tHfquKUMlKOY7aj1EsDm/s2048/pohutukawa%20ware.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1048" data-original-width="2048" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf4CiaWVgxDWNyu4cPjcrO0eSEgB90MuUT7Y5m3jaI2J39x6_fYVnKYCBgey6NXt4cvHSjPsbrTAMFy1dB-DGRRubjra7PcqFcC4ESTQEQoY3HC5-KxaHZ9F80kCpGAgzOEVmya6ObvGjnwl3vmp3qkFqINlN1rqenqXt4tHfquKUMlKOY7aj1EsDm/w640-h328/pohutukawa%20ware.jpg" width="640" /></a></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;">Above: Kevin Kilsby pohutukawa ware, 2021. <span style="font-size: xx-small;">Image Kevin Kilsby</span></i></div><p class="MsoNormal">Gradually, from those boom years the demand for Kilsby ware has
declined. As demand decreased and his age increased, Kevin did not replace staff as they left. His longest serving staff member of around 27 years retired in 2020 just before the first Covid lockdown. Now he is down to one part-timer and another who comes in from
time to time.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>After 30 years mass producing pottery,
Kevin has changed his focus. The outlet shop still features mugs and jugs and
teapots decorated with his signature toetoe and pohutukawa flowers, birds, cats
and cartoons. Assorted ceramic birds and cats on anodised (powder coated) aluminium legs are
still available. But alongside, there are richly coloured wall sculptures,
as well as individual leaves and fish.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>W</o:p>hen he turned 60, Kevin decided to give himself time to experiment and to play with clay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The very successful leaf wall sculptures
were a result of that decision.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has
found a niche that he loves, and the new work is unique and sought after.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the wall sculptures won the People's Choice award in the National Ceramics exhibition in Dunedin in 2021. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp2pBzkraTzDtlGAnNnEvomkTNZAaczpXHD1hKCRxJab2pp886kGQxNP4-o4dvNurOlZavw63F0k5OsDzdhUlH66T43rN29b-f0ApWabZ1aWazbBaKepfnVtxSAcY5rv9NQ7HIyMA78RxFCxCjSOUg3uVy8jk5XzwsMgIlm6gVH5M6tnmdu2vCNgjk/s2048/leaf%20art%20wreath.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1942" data-original-width="2048" height="606" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp2pBzkraTzDtlGAnNnEvomkTNZAaczpXHD1hKCRxJab2pp886kGQxNP4-o4dvNurOlZavw63F0k5OsDzdhUlH66T43rN29b-f0ApWabZ1aWazbBaKepfnVtxSAcY5rv9NQ7HIyMA78RxFCxCjSOUg3uVy8jk5XzwsMgIlm6gVH5M6tnmdu2vCNgjk/w640-h606/leaf%20art%20wreath.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;">Kevin Kilsby wall sculpture. <span style="font-size: xx-small;"> Image Kevin Kilsby</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Kevin has rediscovered a love of nature and his work
reflects what he sees on tramping trips in the New Zealand bush.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He often lags behind his walking companions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Everyone else is looking ahead like you
should but I am peering at the leaves on the ground,” he says.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>His early work was symmetrical and perfect “I was really
into precision and neatness and it was kind of uptight, but now I am trying to
do works that are rougher with more texture. I am interested in the imperfect,
in that process of decay, and often the leaves have bits eaten out of them, or
they are broken, bits of broken twigs and detritus from the forest floor. It is more interesting that perfection.” </p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWhF5igcKQZP9b8cenBDQccj4kwSn3i6NIS2LN-XPUv-AlGtSgqIosYVD7ukazH0YwmTcKRzjpKaITB9Rn9OQyHdyAj3PepjnAjix638SURx8A5wK8lRRp2p6ghdRIGAeqh075Spu4EcV_6wMTK7okFDcHbJO_Ki9-BLGfOrJM-Dd4PZNgz0kX2BRa/s2016/leaf%20with%20spider.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWhF5igcKQZP9b8cenBDQccj4kwSn3i6NIS2LN-XPUv-AlGtSgqIosYVD7ukazH0YwmTcKRzjpKaITB9Rn9OQyHdyAj3PepjnAjix638SURx8A5wK8lRRp2p6ghdRIGAeqh075Spu4EcV_6wMTK7okFDcHbJO_Ki9-BLGfOrJM-Dd4PZNgz0kX2BRa/w400-h300/leaf%20with%20spider.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;">Each wall sculpture is assembled from scores, if not hundreds of tiny individually made pieces. This leaf features a tiny spider. Note the gecko, bottom left. <span style="font-size: x-small;">Image Kevin Kilsby</span></i></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Over the years Kevin has experimented with other media
besides clay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For about three years in the 1990s he worked
in cast glass. The work sold well and he still feels pride in what he
achieved, but glass can be difficult and unpredictable, and he
needed expensive equipment to pursue the medium successfully.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So he went back to clay which is more
forgiving. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0ImPKFx4OH9LtywAdiK18UMpoTsQZjDadkZNrG6MpO03Rm8vNc04Cw_DclK4HPBvpuOa8yI1xb0KWyi7MsVWJr72XQtajhKe16L0hTOKO-xSFzJul5NLVB3Roqr_yDr3C6XvE--k5BDXWNe_YjxSzoSYPwmO8Bi2XvrvNploVm5dyVjbC-pbiWZKk/s1055/cast%20glass.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="674" data-original-width="1055" height="408" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0ImPKFx4OH9LtywAdiK18UMpoTsQZjDadkZNrG6MpO03Rm8vNc04Cw_DclK4HPBvpuOa8yI1xb0KWyi7MsVWJr72XQtajhKe16L0hTOKO-xSFzJul5NLVB3Roqr_yDr3C6XvE--k5BDXWNe_YjxSzoSYPwmO8Bi2XvrvNploVm5dyVjbC-pbiWZKk/w640-h408/cast%20glass.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;">Above: Kevin Kilsby cast glass pieces. He has also made ceramic jugs in the same shape. </i></div><p class="MsoNormal">Alongside his clay work, Kevin tends a lush and beautiful
subtropical garden, featuring pieces from his workshop and from other
artists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The garden is open to visitors
to the studio shop. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnmM_ccHobYz4LAIKABa05BRe7YA9vjfG4hg1kK7poc1jSrpcz4nQ7eJf3_5WTFSTaJr__vqLzpgnt7JNxiUh-YfW40LNzmUP5sTkGTGuOagL-H06wLE3on0FVxhsPV1DDkz4XKcE1t5PVs2HBDHZjQFwkcyukJZpMZAmBVZNQbJr3VALjPQoBDpMF/s1848/garden%20good.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1848" data-original-width="1848" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnmM_ccHobYz4LAIKABa05BRe7YA9vjfG4hg1kK7poc1jSrpcz4nQ7eJf3_5WTFSTaJr__vqLzpgnt7JNxiUh-YfW40LNzmUP5sTkGTGuOagL-H06wLE3on0FVxhsPV1DDkz4XKcE1t5PVs2HBDHZjQFwkcyukJZpMZAmBVZNQbJr3VALjPQoBDpMF/w640-h640/garden%20good.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Timeline</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1981 – Kevin Kilsby began making ceramic art pieces. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1988 – made intricate pressed ware with coloured porcelain<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1992 QE2 grant enabled him to buy a kiln and other equipment and build a studio<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1981 moved to Hamilton from Palmerston North<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1986-1991 – worked at Western Potters Supplies Hamilton shop and
began slipcasting <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1993/1994 moved back to Auckland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Set up workshop in his home in Mt Albert. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1996-2010. The peak years. Making kiwiana and quirky cartoon ware.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Employed up to eight staff and sold throughout
New Zealand <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1998-2010 – had a shop in Mt Albert<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2019 – began moving away from slipcast ware. Made the first wall
sculptures<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Identifying Kevin Kilsby’s work</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal">Apart from the occasional salt and pepper shaker, it is very unlikely that you will come across an unmarked piece of Kevin Kilsby's work. Kevin never used a potter's mark stamp but almost without exception pieces that came from his workshop carry one of his signature marks. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghNr5NxobEx3rtKmKW7YIIWdLrqMjp0FG2Tz8DTO7DjeRFo92PomEnweM403rT7CMJCTpAEz-PAFFfkWtU_vROjmmrPzLCA2aBgBJydyLbnXnB7RKVzOaMaXO83fqCjBptUCiEr_Xl9reZLCjVWRGkQnPZJ1F1ZT1GIaGo3xJkdhnuhVKw8om1YwmP/s1401/Porcelain%20mark.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="634" data-original-width="1401" height="146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghNr5NxobEx3rtKmKW7YIIWdLrqMjp0FG2Tz8DTO7DjeRFo92PomEnweM403rT7CMJCTpAEz-PAFFfkWtU_vROjmmrPzLCA2aBgBJydyLbnXnB7RKVzOaMaXO83fqCjBptUCiEr_Xl9reZLCjVWRGkQnPZJ1F1ZT1GIaGo3xJkdhnuhVKw8om1YwmP/w320-h146/Porcelain%20mark.jpg" width="320" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg34f-kAeW1iiwOPxOQgbgDKWa_MbsZBnj7O_3h9jqpYtRbleI9ijqtUiK1N63DRvjtSW_FQn69Vo40VCrsk6IMPbdfMKvo_O9YXi-38E6vQ77PCPXe3AG477REAeoFmrLViS--rvylhYCXsDqANqVUt4FMpd8NJLOaVySHDbxa_hULb5UqyzLDOjAF/s2356/Porcelain.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1619" data-original-width="2356" height="138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg34f-kAeW1iiwOPxOQgbgDKWa_MbsZBnj7O_3h9jqpYtRbleI9ijqtUiK1N63DRvjtSW_FQn69Vo40VCrsk6IMPbdfMKvo_O9YXi-38E6vQ77PCPXe3AG477REAeoFmrLViS--rvylhYCXsDqANqVUt4FMpd8NJLOaVySHDbxa_hULb5UqyzLDOjAF/w200-h138/Porcelain.jpg" width="200" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal">Above: hand-scratched Kevin Kilsby in pressed porcelain. December 1988. This is typical of how Kevin marked his early works. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgJFHsluv3pI_QkE584PqiPsPeZO4h9fRczBX5u8wAe8vm2FMAEx5FW_0-ettCuqXgRDZnjrNZEqiN9GKZmgHKtTzDQG0BbHBrbW0SuBYstkLexfKgblqp7W3LB4lQseEmPav9RSo9eR-m_Lk5HZOYwGgSkL_k9gJwv78DyvVPOLq0ZkuWqx2zZ-Rb/s694/Grapes%20and%20oranges%20mark.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="694" data-original-width="489" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgJFHsluv3pI_QkE584PqiPsPeZO4h9fRczBX5u8wAe8vm2FMAEx5FW_0-ettCuqXgRDZnjrNZEqiN9GKZmgHKtTzDQG0BbHBrbW0SuBYstkLexfKgblqp7W3LB4lQseEmPav9RSo9eR-m_Lk5HZOYwGgSkL_k9gJwv78DyvVPOLq0ZkuWqx2zZ-Rb/w141-h200/Grapes%20and%20oranges%20mark.jpg" width="141" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRbr815kbJ2JgfZe0QTG_obvW-xh4kAcFUd5uboamHHjq503gkuj8xpURzDvC1iJtNObbhlw1XxLxvyJb7VIlfsZgCLFLCSParlvIUBDHetnLDLAMayRNvGpBvB08XRPRfV-cCNYSoCTmmzIzOLn9-JwujN3UQTyA3MkYJdWx-qk0YF2-uV6USEA_Q/s1999/Grapes%20and%20oranges.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1999" data-original-width="1378" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRbr815kbJ2JgfZe0QTG_obvW-xh4kAcFUd5uboamHHjq503gkuj8xpURzDvC1iJtNObbhlw1XxLxvyJb7VIlfsZgCLFLCSParlvIUBDHetnLDLAMayRNvGpBvB08XRPRfV-cCNYSoCTmmzIzOLn9-JwujN3UQTyA3MkYJdWx-qk0YF2-uV6USEA_Q/w138-h200/Grapes%20and%20oranges.jpg" width="138" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal">Above: signature included in Grapes and Oranges pattern. Circa 1990</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH-VPRYv4MZ_3Qs7nS0LRO1YhxTOKxeDg3QkdHS-DeLS6citZ5nDzsNWrKAzIkrLwoHOLMVM4qhskejUiRL7_SGAoawBJvZae2HSHe2DwfFJZHCWIf_TbVPtO5Df2KYYeylHqSGthngKjewazn4HJ884lgHqRApRSu5kyG9QKoVRKbQJnlBVjQ5FYe/s1907/Persimmons%20mark.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1907" data-original-width="1894" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH-VPRYv4MZ_3Qs7nS0LRO1YhxTOKxeDg3QkdHS-DeLS6citZ5nDzsNWrKAzIkrLwoHOLMVM4qhskejUiRL7_SGAoawBJvZae2HSHe2DwfFJZHCWIf_TbVPtO5Df2KYYeylHqSGthngKjewazn4HJ884lgHqRApRSu5kyG9QKoVRKbQJnlBVjQ5FYe/w199-h200/Persimmons%20mark.jpg" width="199" /><img border="0" data-original-height="2252" data-original-width="2317" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVu09kc2tftrInllgD1UM-yc7SRQKO59HMp_GXsMwHcJCzLgf90daFN6pw1aJxi0qtEqTpxx5YlReZTuKKT1INV3k8lPG1fV_7EoJJQVZgqDVEYFdTlTgsK9kHC1RjhBoZX-BD-wWK9wSyzXDPKEltO15ViRGj_cwRVVccdUS5L6Ufy5ZHT2ubkO1A/w200-h194/Persimmons.jpg" width="200" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH-VPRYv4MZ_3Qs7nS0LRO1YhxTOKxeDg3QkdHS-DeLS6citZ5nDzsNWrKAzIkrLwoHOLMVM4qhskejUiRL7_SGAoawBJvZae2HSHe2DwfFJZHCWIf_TbVPtO5Df2KYYeylHqSGthngKjewazn4HJ884lgHqRApRSu5kyG9QKoVRKbQJnlBVjQ5FYe/s1907/Persimmons%20mark.jpg" style="clear: left; 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float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH-VPRYv4MZ_3Qs7nS0LRO1YhxTOKxeDg3QkdHS-DeLS6citZ5nDzsNWrKAzIkrLwoHOLMVM4qhskejUiRL7_SGAoawBJvZae2HSHe2DwfFJZHCWIf_TbVPtO5Df2KYYeylHqSGthngKjewazn4HJ884lgHqRApRSu5kyG9QKoVRKbQJnlBVjQ5FYe/s1907/Persimmons%20mark.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a></div><div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"><br /></div><div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"><br /></div><div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"><br /></div><div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"><br /></div><div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"><br /></div><div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"><br /></div><div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"><br /></div><div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"><br /></div><div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"><br /></div><div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"><br /></div><div style="mso-element: endnote-list; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="mso-element: endnote-list;">Above: hand-inscribed signature on limited edition plate. </div><div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJIbexZMZs-kXRkBjjCWtMWuedlVcAJvFpLZ4d3Jd6aEyOXEuMioanNbfETxIz7htOjX4V1efShdRNHjcXA9GRiAew5pYmNaj9sIvxIax8AOy2bf95RrojhLS4b2ClBKVmyCx7V4UYcSAUbQaS5rkj3dobF89iE88fg0R72PpYqCM-Ft7twdhtr4fa/s801/Kilsby%20pretty%20bowl%20mark.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="801" data-original-width="678" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJIbexZMZs-kXRkBjjCWtMWuedlVcAJvFpLZ4d3Jd6aEyOXEuMioanNbfETxIz7htOjX4V1efShdRNHjcXA9GRiAew5pYmNaj9sIvxIax8AOy2bf95RrojhLS4b2ClBKVmyCx7V4UYcSAUbQaS5rkj3dobF89iE88fg0R72PpYqCM-Ft7twdhtr4fa/w169-h200/Kilsby%20pretty%20bowl%20mark.jpg" width="169" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><span style="text-align: left;"> Above: Kilsby '91 signature, again included as part of the pattern on a hand-decorated bowl</span></div><div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"><br /></div><div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"><img border="0" data-original-height="676" data-original-width="637" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVLyp9uJVu4D25FHtAGqWh-7gFxRQDKk9rHTNwgvusCmUBc4mMVByM6lo_a8uVkY613PKrEzgIctI1dBShL2lb2P9-d6o5l8pi-JO6xrBaBFQ0zyOrZoTsbK3m-sGJiy3nuXtXHozzKQV_pdu8f__RhIFBlwrbcUZB0jOHFQ50qC3N4fCoEfTFPzJU/w189-h200/Woman%20dish%20mark.jpg" style="text-align: center;" width="189" /><span style="text-align: center;">ab</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFj1KUS-H7o6IyduGYaIZzuEuylsGjS3gYlQxQNs9H7hAU38hfhM7Q7if6Fty8uWRHJJdcyK0G0mXVkPcCoKUm_X-SjA3SViexm7pZu5NVwX46wXW9QcUqrMr8Oy3GCsZ_kQRzWwqJogupDJoKteAEyDWM3aa9d6iWVwEXGafKreEuAZfwMYj8fjZ5/s1686/Woman%20dish.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1686" data-original-width="1585" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFj1KUS-H7o6IyduGYaIZzuEuylsGjS3gYlQxQNs9H7hAU38hfhM7Q7if6Fty8uWRHJJdcyK0G0mXVkPcCoKUm_X-SjA3SViexm7pZu5NVwX46wXW9QcUqrMr8Oy3GCsZ_kQRzWwqJogupDJoKteAEyDWM3aa9d6iWVwEXGafKreEuAZfwMYj8fjZ5/w188-h200/Woman%20dish.jpg" width="188" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVLyp9uJVu4D25FHtAGqWh-7gFxRQDKk9rHTNwgvusCmUBc4mMVByM6lo_a8uVkY613PKrEzgIctI1dBShL2lb2P9-d6o5l8pi-JO6xrBaBFQ0zyOrZoTsbK3m-sGJiy3nuXtXHozzKQV_pdu8f__RhIFBlwrbcUZB0jOHFQ50qC3N4fCoEfTFPzJU/s676/Woman%20dish%20mark.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a></div>Above: This is the best known Kilsby mark, used from date to the present day. it is seen here on a small hand-decorated dish. <br /><div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"><br /></div><div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj6_LVCx57V4fON0dPtTiBl2_rhhLeLqM3gNj-8fwA2VXrtLy3ZBbZVfo0RcwbuPs5GhzCOT9heSSl1QxwXNaAbrgsFIgUH4Do09-j7wSdKB3ZVmOCbPdXo_UXsxtFn4BpOv3XH-zUU-uDsJeehUWhG079SIJgBcHqoovNTmYM8erjblIzWvWrzrEE/s1098/20230114_150536.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div style="mso-element: endnote-list;">Above: Kilsby NZ on salt and peppers. Note that one of the pair is unmarked.</div><div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY9d6oezFuv6MfgbEO-j4jsOvQoY7MVsVXV7l06nnIF_PvxnZo1L-PJ4caHaqE8LKeOH-_HCBYRNBoyeGWAMp0vG5EAwuZHhcVPL_DozqWvVb9_hEI1XAbZRm6KfnD59SKQ1d_UUCewvDLon1Lmew7Q0j4kuX7stY7-UyCHn2eYcyP8Z3R4Wvv_RXh/s1120/20230114_150607.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1111" data-original-width="1120" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY9d6oezFuv6MfgbEO-j4jsOvQoY7MVsVXV7l06nnIF_PvxnZo1L-PJ4caHaqE8LKeOH-_HCBYRNBoyeGWAMp0vG5EAwuZHhcVPL_DozqWvVb9_hEI1XAbZRm6KfnD59SKQ1d_UUCewvDLon1Lmew7Q0j4kuX7stY7-UyCHn2eYcyP8Z3R4Wvv_RXh/w200-h198/20230114_150607.jpg" width="200" /><img border="0" data-original-height="1677" data-original-width="1709" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgACyeC0B2Z_9SBugy0RTXrcwPjEdXP5Lm9G3X5R4LzESlF6vu99oEIc4f7zPq23bOa8_9ppouMSCU8fNLvKn8lLByaPR8Us65iP-4DY6zNpxIvSiK0fJtVu23vJ2z3bIfjJ5-Cqrq3GIgQafXMygxC5VU4lvBiN5JZZgvNCE_qJyCBUKjrOUtCGC4F/w200-h196/20230114_150548.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div style="mso-element: endnote-list;">. </div><div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"><br /></div><div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"><br /></div><div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"><br /></div><div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"><br /></div><div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"><br /></div><div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"><br /></div><div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"><br /></div><div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"><br /></div><div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"><br /></div><div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"><br /></div><div style="mso-element: endnote-list;">KK NZ. Again, note that one of the pair of salt and peppers is unmarked</div><div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicEQ0vcR32skv38XIG1AUXEyQTTOsf7S6Tv-3CQ1bIJzkRJaZaRuO9jgzgGEX12trO-taUJqgK9ivTWE3PkB3AMR6F1-aYA5fqwLiHPlZE9WiouOMq64HcP-ofsql1MPUayphoud_4SkGn2oAkfc_vnCPtzbqcGhH6dbYMdig7hqfOXZZkxHR_cNIS/s1092/Star%20jug%20mark%201993.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1092" data-original-width="1073" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicEQ0vcR32skv38XIG1AUXEyQTTOsf7S6Tv-3CQ1bIJzkRJaZaRuO9jgzgGEX12trO-taUJqgK9ivTWE3PkB3AMR6F1-aYA5fqwLiHPlZE9WiouOMq64HcP-ofsql1MPUayphoud_4SkGn2oAkfc_vnCPtzbqcGhH6dbYMdig7hqfOXZZkxHR_cNIS/w196-h200/Star%20jug%20mark%201993.jpg" width="196" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeqVwX9t5E4xePrkj1QYJVoLf3WLZzuwjRKIa337XniYYizjOCi_IXAkMMLN7hrIu9MXfQBKRvhT0sF3oWohPhrctVZ_RhU25VJiNSVcRdHipkhiuIyrWNNQwtFBkEOlkqnsZbDXcBgvoFlm7QxEq-8HMkz-YPnb_KVbetHgo8kvkusUZ6hshxPtGV/s1681/Star%20jug.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1681" data-original-width="1638" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeqVwX9t5E4xePrkj1QYJVoLf3WLZzuwjRKIa337XniYYizjOCi_IXAkMMLN7hrIu9MXfQBKRvhT0sF3oWohPhrctVZ_RhU25VJiNSVcRdHipkhiuIyrWNNQwtFBkEOlkqnsZbDXcBgvoFlm7QxEq-8HMkz-YPnb_KVbetHgo8kvkusUZ6hshxPtGV/w195-h200/Star%20jug.jpg" width="195" /></a><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Kilsby NZ including date 1993</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVDsQqKXFMFJvJBDyPOgbnwkY1lzYx9jueg5QRJukzqOvzscS7ePL6MantcmRXwvyUqQVcoZeEiPCFznwaMoYkkx2SfjXuV1h_8NyCwJw4Opz4Czui4CQW7JD3oh9fL_gKKywlIsks58PYz1ClQGrBPduLX9RF9DxbsnH9jhlWrkXWEeo96fkczmBQ/s808/Blue%20small%20tiles%20mark.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="356" data-original-width="808" height="141" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVDsQqKXFMFJvJBDyPOgbnwkY1lzYx9jueg5QRJukzqOvzscS7ePL6MantcmRXwvyUqQVcoZeEiPCFznwaMoYkkx2SfjXuV1h_8NyCwJw4Opz4Czui4CQW7JD3oh9fL_gKKywlIsks58PYz1ClQGrBPduLX9RF9DxbsnH9jhlWrkXWEeo96fkczmBQ/s320/Blue%20small%20tiles%20mark.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwFKgP2hKYiDlltBr9kpglSUtm0H09lsbGHZxkVsbljJzRmZmqQfCXBzuKVoZzRuUAWXM8sV9f7r2-xRUuMjwZg_gmBpL4b8YDGFybIrQeAQB91f1u2_lpYx0RqJakVLjwrOgx7L3SCOO8lBQVVcS6yfHmEkudJtkITLHvyf68oFyTHgTIZv04ZPbM/s1261/Blue%20small%20tiles%20crop%20one%20.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1261" data-original-width="845" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwFKgP2hKYiDlltBr9kpglSUtm0H09lsbGHZxkVsbljJzRmZmqQfCXBzuKVoZzRuUAWXM8sV9f7r2-xRUuMjwZg_gmBpL4b8YDGFybIrQeAQB91f1u2_lpYx0RqJakVLjwrOgx7L3SCOO8lBQVVcS6yfHmEkudJtkITLHvyf68oFyTHgTIZv04ZPbM/w134-h200/Blue%20small%20tiles%20crop%20one%20.jpg" width="134" /></a></div><div>Above: Kilsby NZ impressed into clay </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7nv2Sa5G7hPOcjV0f8ow0TWZrZ5dhd8Qg09OcXCcdzA0jc-YzzrbBzCB7DqXateWXNU6VITOsywiidCCGf00JRpeJ2R9W7Hl0p4LRYEdFu6Y5xk5M6fjv0F_cF2MPDdGenuV6RfgRl0bwtqBdJBB0xhqP_L0YgispmWw4lq5pdCkY5iP6KLOQPlHF/s686/Blue%20small%20tiles%20sticker.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="686" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7nv2Sa5G7hPOcjV0f8ow0TWZrZ5dhd8Qg09OcXCcdzA0jc-YzzrbBzCB7DqXateWXNU6VITOsywiidCCGf00JRpeJ2R9W7Hl0p4LRYEdFu6Y5xk5M6fjv0F_cF2MPDdGenuV6RfgRl0bwtqBdJBB0xhqP_L0YgispmWw4lq5pdCkY5iP6KLOQPlHF/w200-h140/Blue%20small%20tiles%20sticker.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div>Kevin Kilsby Designer Ceramics sticker. Found on the blue and white tile above. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"><div id="edn1" style="mso-element: endnote;"><p class="MsoEndnoteText">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p class="MsoEndnoteText">Most of the information for this post came from Valerie
Monk’s interview with Kevin
Kilsby, at his home on 7 November 2019 and correspondence following that interview. </p><p class="MsoEndnoteText"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoEndnoteText">Further material is derived from the <a href="https://www.kilsby.co.nz/">Kevin Kilsby Ceramics website</a>. </p><p class="MsoEndnoteText">There is more information on the <a href="https://www.newzealandpottery.net/search?search_keywords=kilsby">New Zealand Pottery Forum website</a></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText">--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p>
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</div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Val Monkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11564133844683942529noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2880978462637000167.post-76075076462620265992022-05-14T13:01:00.001+12:002022-05-14T16:29:32.317+12:00In memory of Mark Cleverley - Crown Lynn designer <p> </p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpS2B18ZEE6brss2lSLp-gTIMMV3bxM8hwP2WDgYqdxrGsrai3JCol53jY2z4kdTKYIBchThs0RFZfCvIBtWGxtFNhA6D3FjMuEuse6cIb1JKljtiwLtwEfyRFxzi24AjwLwkH7HB_40ql5mGCY4QFy3-G4rjl_5bZlndki2N20xgTeHsjd_C8Yx1J/s392/Mark%20Cleverley%201968%20pic.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="392" data-original-width="278" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpS2B18ZEE6brss2lSLp-gTIMMV3bxM8hwP2WDgYqdxrGsrai3JCol53jY2z4kdTKYIBchThs0RFZfCvIBtWGxtFNhA6D3FjMuEuse6cIb1JKljtiwLtwEfyRFxzi24AjwLwkH7HB_40ql5mGCY4QFy3-G4rjl_5bZlndki2N20xgTeHsjd_C8Yx1J/w454-h640/Mark%20Cleverley%201968%20pic.jpg" width="454" /></a></p><p>More sad times in the Crown Lynn world - in May 2022 we lost Mark Cleverley, one of Crown Lynn’s outstanding
designers, and indeed a New Zealand design icon.</p><p><o:p> </o:p>Along with fellow designer Dave Jenkin, Mark Cleverley was a
mainstay of Crown Lynn design. He worked there for ten years, helping to move the pottery to the forefront of
industrial design in New Zealand. David Jenkin hired Mark Cleverley in 1968 as
Development designer. Mark was a professional, already known
to Crown Lynn because he had won two design competitions and entered
others. His officially described role was to look at world trends and create designs in keeping
with overseas tastes but with New Zealand style.</p><p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDlIAqDxwJ55SP4sBFIJBJoJbZA7txJ_n8dO7Di7tGMqFZEbdqsud-p2Wg8lFG-bTulEQzdh4TjJUYQ8XQWhl-VHQcisSGohmspcIOHevEuKg5T6DOtN96L_D6yPbRBzKxapTv4KzozBJgUZdnR6oXd0uIjWCWu6qTCOCdPKX4fUF0H3yar_btphft/s2566/Mark%20and%20Dave%20at%20work.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1745" data-original-width="2566" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDlIAqDxwJ55SP4sBFIJBJoJbZA7txJ_n8dO7Di7tGMqFZEbdqsud-p2Wg8lFG-bTulEQzdh4TjJUYQ8XQWhl-VHQcisSGohmspcIOHevEuKg5T6DOtN96L_D6yPbRBzKxapTv4KzozBJgUZdnR6oXd0uIjWCWu6qTCOCdPKX4fUF0H3yar_btphft/w400-h272/Mark%20and%20Dave%20at%20work.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p>Above Mark Cleverley and David Jenkin at work <span style="font-size: small;">(Image from '<i>Mark Cleverley Designer</i>' by Jonty Valentine) </span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>Mark brought a new precision to Crown Lynn design. His approach was mathematical and technical.
He worked by measurements, and he used instruments. He believed in perfect
symmetry.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>He stayed at Crown Lynn until early 1980, leaving soon after
Dave Jenkin retired. Mark continued to work in design until the 1990s, and also taught a new
generation of polytech students. During his entire career Mark worked in many different fields including stamps,
buildings, graphics and packaging as well as ceramics.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>Mark Cleverley was kind and generous with his time and
knowledge, to me and to other researchers.
I have no background in design or in ceramics, and Mark went out of his
way to make sure I got my facts right.
He added immensely to my understanding of design. He helped me to see that the shape and the
decoration of an object need to be harmonious.
There is no point in creating an elegant cup unless the handle looks
like it is part of the same form. And
the decoration must look ‘right’ on the shape it is created for. There is a difference between a rose transfer
plonked onto a plate and a pattern – eg his famous Echo – which has been specifically
created to fit that plate. Ceramics are
three-dimensional. You draw your design
on paper, then it has to be formatted to conform with the curves of a cup or
bowl. Then there were the practical issues
– how to make a teapot with a lid that didn’t fall off, and a spout that poured
cleanly?</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>Technically, there must be compatibility between the style
of design and the materials and processes in the factory. There was no point in creating a beautiful shape
if it could not be mass-produced in the factory machinery. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><o:p> </o:p>Echo</u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvoxtrbmyaVYITPfFiSVh8ReKyota84KRJcODdL15TZYhz4UxfYw9K99pcPv7fjNs9yO5os4fI3UxmC2PmaGa-qJ4cajGovI9N_6-I6ArYQcDx-ECGL-rv8Zk3P_Sbn1jeQb67yl9q7GfDZaP4xuMVvdzRgL-f9pYqs4rEfkwarzrdQ-KeqxLIWfxM/s4000/Echo%203%20gd.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2664" data-original-width="4000" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvoxtrbmyaVYITPfFiSVh8ReKyota84KRJcODdL15TZYhz4UxfYw9K99pcPv7fjNs9yO5os4fI3UxmC2PmaGa-qJ4cajGovI9N_6-I6ArYQcDx-ECGL-rv8Zk3P_Sbn1jeQb67yl9q7GfDZaP4xuMVvdzRgL-f9pYqs4rEfkwarzrdQ-KeqxLIWfxM/w400-h266/Echo%203%20gd.JPG" width="400" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mark’s most well-known design is Echo which was released in
1969 and was still on sale in 1979. This was produced on the Murray Curvex machine
but pushed the technology to the limits, printing the flowers first in black on
the white bisque, with the semi-opaque red added later, and a black line on the
rim was rolled on by hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amusingly Crown
Lynn publicity described Echo as influenced by the flower-power hippie culture,
drawn with ‘reckless abandon.’ <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-HqbaKh4iPBddEbQc-9jhEhKcsygvWt8O-LS2u__osla85hCQFoeLXndJp5rlkKJQF5dPTKeMHHxp8QrZU7CiaFsBAvM5RLr346kA76IEg1Cg-3-pPZExN6poO0pIlWNZLINRvzEisL1PV5FZHAS-U2-SXomRVG7PzSDfBT2_P6K0NPjhNchhzXP6/s1200/cl%20dec%2069%204.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="924" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-HqbaKh4iPBddEbQc-9jhEhKcsygvWt8O-LS2u__osla85hCQFoeLXndJp5rlkKJQF5dPTKeMHHxp8QrZU7CiaFsBAvM5RLr346kA76IEg1Cg-3-pPZExN6poO0pIlWNZLINRvzEisL1PV5FZHAS-U2-SXomRVG7PzSDfBT2_P6K0NPjhNchhzXP6/w493-h640/cl%20dec%2069%204.jpg" width="493" /></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Palm Springs</u><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPPLAOgPAQ6hhPyuqM3TBCA_YVi9cdISOgyP8gIsiPs6ZPl42MFAVOZmEN72bJPJwC8hBZXMCo10bWoVIpksc_XSwYPdpiU346fNx6s_u_nJYBAza09nvuKWDAMsuIsLw8ZI9uG0oX-WETMalXg6w_b9C5ewBD7WLwpZxgYPk4NIDAv_oo0o9Ct85E/s2715/Dorothy%20Thorpe%20Palm%20Springs%20.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2247" data-original-width="2715" height="331" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPPLAOgPAQ6hhPyuqM3TBCA_YVi9cdISOgyP8gIsiPs6ZPl42MFAVOZmEN72bJPJwC8hBZXMCo10bWoVIpksc_XSwYPdpiU346fNx6s_u_nJYBAza09nvuKWDAMsuIsLw8ZI9uG0oX-WETMalXg6w_b9C5ewBD7WLwpZxgYPk4NIDAv_oo0o9Ct85E/w400-h331/Dorothy%20Thorpe%20Palm%20Springs%20.JPG" width="400" /></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This pattern was a winning entry by Mark Cleverley in the
design competition of 1963.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His entry
was depicted in shades of grey, but the final version was in shades of brown. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Palm Springs was used by American Dorothy
Thorpe for one of her ball-handled ranges. The picture above is is a version of the Dorothy Thorpe range with an 'ear' handle rather than the ball handle. Along with the Pine pattern, Palm Springs sold
well in New Zealand, on standard Crown Lynn dinnerware shapes.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><o:p> </o:p>Juliana </u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg51ju5VX2vFO7YfembItq3sQ9lLL13Q-y4NZYxIU_aNzMFyHhB8Gs5pFSOCIXVqU9PLYgz6KPCiNcFYLuEAPIdVkqEHel19ukU73WocCHE9Um_f1KcFfRfEiailUEfuKMkVI0UcSKj4-ECjbAKB5p39qXTCm8ffcguMbr6WBtw0Cj48rgKmxziG3S4/s818/Juliana.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="725" data-original-width="818" height="355" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg51ju5VX2vFO7YfembItq3sQ9lLL13Q-y4NZYxIU_aNzMFyHhB8Gs5pFSOCIXVqU9PLYgz6KPCiNcFYLuEAPIdVkqEHel19ukU73WocCHE9Um_f1KcFfRfEiailUEfuKMkVI0UcSKj4-ECjbAKB5p39qXTCm8ffcguMbr6WBtw0Cj48rgKmxziG3S4/w400-h355/Juliana.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal">Today, Juliana is one of Mark’s most sought-after designs. At
the time it didn’t sell well in New Zealand and was thought to be too avant-garde
for our tastes. This is on the Forma shape, which was jointly designed by Mark and David Jenkin. Mark also designed the fluted Apollo dinnerware range, which was sold mainly in white. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><o:p> </o:p>The Luke Adams coffee set</u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5LyUCmSVrLJUWVbc2czI45tdH9wKRMggur7PPz_LzgBpPHVJsczD31u9wzKFs0sVxHhNm2OhP2dIHxAye9BXK_20myiuce8Tmtw89Axy3jU5YCF1hBt3PWOGDFJFcXGmddd5FbBmHKaASOry8Y-5hX9IDAJHWNHFOE30OZNcHMN9-TJRbqEF4_NK7/s496/x%20cleverley%20coffee%20set%20with%20ashtray%20sml%20(2).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="494" data-original-width="496" height="399" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5LyUCmSVrLJUWVbc2czI45tdH9wKRMggur7PPz_LzgBpPHVJsczD31u9wzKFs0sVxHhNm2OhP2dIHxAye9BXK_20myiuce8Tmtw89Axy3jU5YCF1hBt3PWOGDFJFcXGmddd5FbBmHKaASOry8Y-5hX9IDAJHWNHFOE30OZNcHMN9-TJRbqEF4_NK7/w400-h399/x%20cleverley%20coffee%20set%20with%20ashtray%20sml%20(2).jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal">This coffee set was selected to be part of an exhibition
held at the Design Centre in London in 1969, celebrating “examples of this
country’s achievements in industrial design.” Designed by Mark Cleverley and
Dave Jenkin for Crown Lynn, it was made at the Crown Lynn-owned Luke Adams pottery in Christchurch.<span style="font-size: x-small;"> Image from a Crown Lynn publication</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><o:p> </o:p>Expo 70 ware</u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjnnNPLUCP3nY4u1TIF1oGyxP6D78ctfGl21XqhfHqes_GceowDpK-SkRlxl1LmR39mETRNYzHzRSdCH9vT_Vh_xrG420E7QVNT2bjxp6B-KHy4OlOAIGcb5hJfhZAH8ywasYiFEvoyB-3VbUygk36TeaSbqlI82IPawoWhbepe7ERX6zJ3DQCY24O/s2070/Expo%20plate.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1331" data-original-width="2070" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjnnNPLUCP3nY4u1TIF1oGyxP6D78ctfGl21XqhfHqes_GceowDpK-SkRlxl1LmR39mETRNYzHzRSdCH9vT_Vh_xrG420E7QVNT2bjxp6B-KHy4OlOAIGcb5hJfhZAH8ywasYiFEvoyB-3VbUygk36TeaSbqlI82IPawoWhbepe7ERX6zJ3DQCY24O/w400-h258/Expo%20plate.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In 1970 the New Zealand Meat Board had a large pavilion at
Expo 70 which was held in Osaka, Japan. Mark and Dave Jenkin designed a set of
dinnerware for the Geyser restaurant there. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As well as these ‘geyser’ plates, there were various
lidded serving pots in a deep green. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Mark Cleverley leaves a rich legacy of design, in other fields besides Crown Lynn. The book <i>Mark Cleverley Designer</i> by Jonty Valentine, gives a good overview of his work. It is published by Objectspace gallery/David Bateman. </p><p class="MsoNormal">My condolences to Mark's family, he will be sorely missed. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>And my usual end note: I do my very best to ensure that my information is correct, but if you see any errors or omissions, please let me know. </i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal">Sources:</p><p></p><p>My book <i>Crown Lynn a New Zealand Icon</i>, and unpublished interviews with Mark Cleverley and others</p><p><i>Mark Cleverley Designer</i> by Jonty Valentine, published by Objectspace gallery/David Bateman </p><p><br /></p>Val Monkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11564133844683942529noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2880978462637000167.post-36767211726984271972022-03-22T16:29:00.004+13:002022-04-05T09:50:54.410+12:00<h4 style="text-align: left;">IN MEMORY OF CHRIS HARVEY</h4><h4 style="text-align: left;">A New Zealand pottery stalwart</h4><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0HpjvN8O2Mf71NFy-ihHi22_oHEZZde5adgyeitSInphh7JPOOlG0oRNHjvNsvpcpRdZIJ-1VZYRiZLYIXNDB6eZ3YcHJxw7SS52mDEjVz33vdXM7CdYECKVP8ne-mljah3YtaDzkJxyT-3c-ysVTrun-9MLnpMc6UJpDeZbVWatj8IF-cwd5dfk0/s860/Pg%2023%20chris%20crop.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="860" data-original-width="829" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0HpjvN8O2Mf71NFy-ihHi22_oHEZZde5adgyeitSInphh7JPOOlG0oRNHjvNsvpcpRdZIJ-1VZYRiZLYIXNDB6eZ3YcHJxw7SS52mDEjVz33vdXM7CdYECKVP8ne-mljah3YtaDzkJxyT-3c-ysVTrun-9MLnpMc6UJpDeZbVWatj8IF-cwd5dfk0/w385-h400/Pg%2023%20chris%20crop.jpg" width="385" /></a></div><div><o:p>In March 2022</o:p> we lost Chris Harvey, who spent much of his
working life at Crown Lynn, then moved to Studio Ceramics. Chris was an all-round asset to the ceramics industry, with both
technical and management skills.
Personally, he was very good to me and to other researchers. His information was invaluable when I was
writing my first Crown Lynn book, and later I picked his brains about Studio Ceramics. Chris always had a smile and a
story or two – some of them unprintable.</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">Chris Harvey started work at Crown Lynn in Auckland as a young cadet in 1963. Like his fellow cadets, he was sent to Stoke-on-Trent in England to gain a degree in ceramics. He came back to Crown Lynn in 1970, where he learned the practical details of commercial pottery manufacturing. After various middle-management positions at Crown Lynn, Chris was ready for a new challenge. His Crown Lynn boss Tom Clark sent him to the Philippines, where he played a major role in setting up and running Mayon Ceramics. When Mayon closed in 1975, Chris moved on to Royal Grafton in England, also owned at that time by Crown Lynn.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEheseVk31UBo0Fxb4CE2ts59wvF12aomGCLYH3hE2LQL78dmnFHYPD1N1mu4XrCvZb0Vu1YfIG5X06YedCWG7rOQNh9WYAtr5Re3uwkGxnWdGslvACMgpT7YHPbaoTENDl5Em8nf71o7NkRpQNd6AAiI2kM7Um3sr4uiZq-XniZ7ezPbhGovnn0Ml2x=s590" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="590" height="468" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEheseVk31UBo0Fxb4CE2ts59wvF12aomGCLYH3hE2LQL78dmnFHYPD1N1mu4XrCvZb0Vu1YfIG5X06YedCWG7rOQNh9WYAtr5Re3uwkGxnWdGslvACMgpT7YHPbaoTENDl5Em8nf71o7NkRpQNd6AAiI2kM7Um3sr4uiZq-XniZ7ezPbhGovnn0Ml2x=w640-h468" width="640" /></a></div><i>Above: a young Chris Harvey (left) in 1963 with his fellow cadets Richard Poynter and Rod Humphrey (From a Crown Lynn publication)</i><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>In 1984 he came back to Crown Lynn in New Zealand. For some time he was General Manager, but by now the
factory was failing and it closed in May 1989.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(I do need to point out that Chris was not responsible for
the closure of Mayon, or of Crown Lynn.
Both factories were condemned by factors far beyond his control).</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Not long after Crown Lynn shut down, Chris joined the newly established
Studio Ceramics, which he part-owned and managed until about 2010. At Studio
Ceramics he worked with Christine Harris to create the popular range of florals, increasingly sought after today.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhEjmtxhLv1QSkUJQdXHuNC-OBcOjNTYAnn4Ze98KrGI20-IfAm-1xsp_5ONOBKDtq7PNR69MV0nhukste6RSHWe7lisXkt8a2ri9B0SCgQ3leJUAYVwZa6Qvg68nmdJ4ReXimoqKoqdAoafYk3FRZ4GoD7CEUTkbpgUcJbTO32HGrn_lZrAdMl19BF=s2566" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2566" data-original-width="2236" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhEjmtxhLv1QSkUJQdXHuNC-OBcOjNTYAnn4Ze98KrGI20-IfAm-1xsp_5ONOBKDtq7PNR69MV0nhukste6RSHWe7lisXkt8a2ri9B0SCgQ3leJUAYVwZa6Qvg68nmdJ4ReXimoqKoqdAoafYk3FRZ4GoD7CEUTkbpgUcJbTO32HGrn_lZrAdMl19BF=w349-h400" width="349" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Above: Christine Harris 'Floral Yellow Blue" ware from the earlier days at Studio Ceramics. </i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>At its height in the early to mid- 1990s, Studio Ceramics
was supplying about 70 New Zealand outlets, with up to 30 staff making well
over 100,000 pieces a year. Malcolm Johnstone was in charge of the business
operation, Chris Harvey was the technical expert and Christine Harris looked
after design, decoration and marketing.</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiVq2Jm2plSyWfqPuqQHKml94n-u1LVnHaXhRx8kKeYH54-f1ZjCyVXAk3ccelsC_8FU_pm5QOY_rfrEkrCWweGvWcnOw1RMIrOerXII-5AW0ni0QWLlrztz6T09tdLOqtw2hM2ljxm-Qk8yU78moM-PaW92iUQ0GfKz-CGeVIrEx6j-bKNvhM5orfk=s1567" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1567" data-original-width="1240" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiVq2Jm2plSyWfqPuqQHKml94n-u1LVnHaXhRx8kKeYH54-f1ZjCyVXAk3ccelsC_8FU_pm5QOY_rfrEkrCWweGvWcnOw1RMIrOerXII-5AW0ni0QWLlrztz6T09tdLOqtw2hM2ljxm-Qk8yU78moM-PaW92iUQ0GfKz-CGeVIrEx6j-bKNvhM5orfk=w506-h640" width="506" /></a></div><i>Above: Chris Harvey and Christine Harris at the Studio Ceramics factory in 1994 (NZ Herald) <span style="font-size: x-small;">Apologies for the poor quality of this pic, it is a scan of a photocopy. </span></i><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>When he moved to Studio Ceramics, Chris recruited a number
of the out-or-work staff from Crown Lynn.
He was able to give them ceramics jobs when there were very few around.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpfAEJBbAxxJOE7uEUajnkCOeZawePVvM-fb7VsreEPhpwVMAwhcF_4LMdL_YxuwchRSpNYRkzUcwdTeuejMBgsEU7UmWxJQlAm5kpB1CNPmhkjz0UF5kPjjDU3goW4iGOYjWuEltfdEG9Yb81RVIywwOG21lnGYI30k2ZLuYZWpWJCNGgBhSj2FWB=s200" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpfAEJBbAxxJOE7uEUajnkCOeZawePVvM-fb7VsreEPhpwVMAwhcF_4LMdL_YxuwchRSpNYRkzUcwdTeuejMBgsEU7UmWxJQlAm5kpB1CNPmhkjz0UF5kPjjDU3goW4iGOYjWuEltfdEG9Yb81RVIywwOG21lnGYI30k2ZLuYZWpWJCNGgBhSj2FWB=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>Above: Studio Ceramics popular 'To the Sea" range. </i></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">After Christine Harris left in 1995, Chris and his partner Adrienne Lovell,
along with Malcolm Johnstone, continued to manage Studio Ceramics. Sadly, in
about 2010, Chris had a sudden devastating illness and was unable to continue
working. Before long the business was
sold to Philippa and Ken Croft, who kept it going for about six years.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>In particular, I remember Chris for his great turn of
phrase. Here he is – verbatim - describing
a seconds sale at the Studio Ceramics shop in upmarket Auckland suburb of Parnell: </p><p class="MsoNormal">“And on Friday they used to sell
specials, Friday was the cleanout day, and honestly, these ladies… every Friday
morning they would be down here, honestly, there’d be queues of them, these
little old ladies with their gold chains, on their hands and knees groveling
around to pick up bloody seconds.”</p><p class="MsoNormal">Chris’s knowledge and skills commanded respect in the ceramics
industry. Crown Lynn founder Sir Tom
Clark described him as a keen young man in his early days, and a ‘great guy’ in
his later years. “He’s doing a lot of
the things that I wanted to do. He’s got his feet on the ground…He can see
where there’s opportunities... He is
small, light on his feet… I think he has got himself into a very good position
in the marketplace.” </p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>Chris Harvey is survived by his partner Adrienne Lovell, their child and the three children he had with his late first wife, Margaret Harvey. My condolences go to them and to the wider
family. Chris will leave a big gap in their lives.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Val Monkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11564133844683942529noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2880978462637000167.post-36895649411884634132022-02-21T09:59:00.038+13:002022-02-25T13:58:00.567+13:00<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"> BOB STEINER </span><br />Artist and craftsman</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Perhaps best known for his bright bold glazes from the 1990s and 2000s, Aucklander Bob Steiner is an accomplished sculptor as well as a ceramicist. This post tells his story from a teenage enthusiasm for hand-thrown pottery to the remarkable range of castware he produces today. <br /><div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3P7Xh3yhfzwUhManE2ZhifiWDCkk1UgkdNTaI1OEEHxOJIo7UuCACBSIuLxPjY0dfmmf5hhqcg7XvtC74IjidYK8_NU_m2gZWQfr0mHv-XfR2uBCHUVXqg28Q2lJfTAg_5G4gwJea2E4erOYlSvo49PQRBtV5rNQyZLZS6REFGMRVgzIfSZnqqVQM=s579" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="579" data-original-width="480" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3P7Xh3yhfzwUhManE2ZhifiWDCkk1UgkdNTaI1OEEHxOJIo7UuCACBSIuLxPjY0dfmmf5hhqcg7XvtC74IjidYK8_NU_m2gZWQfr0mHv-XfR2uBCHUVXqg28Q2lJfTAg_5G4gwJea2E4erOYlSvo49PQRBtV5rNQyZLZS6REFGMRVgzIfSZnqqVQM=w530-h640" width="530" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj6nDu8vQjBvKMI_5Uwn62x51Tf5elot4SAvca-Ckkxu7FRHn3bePoNL7inCYpIQtwvfgr2SsaCv6qR0ciblIcVSOFYEh1D88J9fYUfsecApogjGSDxLWfuqehZrJeL6PBMZRbSOXVvvs0Hi2uXKWgwNkrwT3dbniI6F5AVUQx0AxnCBjQ1koecPmyH=s960" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="638" data-original-width="960" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj6nDu8vQjBvKMI_5Uwn62x51Tf5elot4SAvca-Ckkxu7FRHn3bePoNL7inCYpIQtwvfgr2SsaCv6qR0ciblIcVSOFYEh1D88J9fYUfsecApogjGSDxLWfuqehZrJeL6PBMZRbSOXVvvs0Hi2uXKWgwNkrwT3dbniI6F5AVUQx0AxnCBjQ1koecPmyH=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Bob Steiner at work in his studio</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image courtesy Bob Steiner </span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></i></div><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;"><i><a href="https://www.steinerceramics.co.nz/">Click here for Bob Steiner's website</a> </i></span></h1><div style="text-align: left;">Bob Steiner started potting at the age of 14. He worked with clay dug from the family land and fired his pots in a home-built kiln. He was so enthusiastic that his father bought him a potter’s wheel as a 15th birthday present. After a stint studying pottery and sculpture at Elam Art School, Steiner and his partner Lynn headed for the remote Hokianga in the Far North. There, the couple had three children and built their own house. Bob made a living from pottery, supplemented by part-time jobs like driving the local school bus. Lynn worked as a school teacher. Bob's pots were hand-thrown on the wheel and fired in a large wood and diesel kiln. Even then, Steiner was searching for new ways to work. “My bible was <i>A Potters Book</i> by Bernard Leitch. It led me into the amazing world of ash glazing and I would run around the hills gathering plants and leaves to burn and wash and mix.” </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgu8olGAda_Yp-EVTC9Pl1Qxt61gH2erOZf2-ez-TUNRr8_dqaXg_C_1JkKsAwydJ_3W-Nccx3Xb4PK5LhA6svzWYBlJ70GPP4Tb6TxZHRPWLkmogTTMVKL4r46EziUkurmT-v7vM8hazdvoiVdMLLWqFSc-RzfodNnDh3godVkJNHQN8TXTbGDHrVs=s337" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="337" data-original-width="267" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgu8olGAda_Yp-EVTC9Pl1Qxt61gH2erOZf2-ez-TUNRr8_dqaXg_C_1JkKsAwydJ_3W-Nccx3Xb4PK5LhA6svzWYBlJ70GPP4Tb6TxZHRPWLkmogTTMVKL4r46EziUkurmT-v7vM8hazdvoiVdMLLWqFSc-RzfodNnDh3godVkJNHQN8TXTbGDHrVs=w254-h320" width="254" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Early salt glazed wine bottle made by Bob Steiner in his teens in Birkenhead (1968)<br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image Bob Steiner </span> </i></div><p>In 1984 Bob Steiner moved back to Auckland after his marriage ended. He soon met up with ceramic artists Christine Harris and Rose Wallis, both based at the D’Art Studios co-operative, and their work inspired him to move from earthy hand-thrown ware to slipcasting and decorating in bright clear colours. </p><p>In the Hokianga, Steiner had been experimenting with his hand-thrown pieces, slicing them with a knife or thin wire and reshaping them by hand to create angular forms that could not be achieved using a wheel alone. In Auckland he learned how to replicate the new shapes over and over by slipcasting in moulds. The new techniques created the popular 'Swirl' teaset, with its unusual curves and cut-out lids. Other ware created in this way included the Swirl dinner set – its plates and bowls had cut-out sides. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEipdmPNjTHg4G-ZUpvVpFyvz8gfp6-xMxRRcW9orRW6sM1DerxtWQtTTN282J8oLvBq-MGEh5Diz3NiuRFIlTShUTxK9t9N7HuM0-AqJZ2jnCoJRILNpmUt9Ji1b1lNUXT2ZH1w_sdoYUmKMP7_jUuGImTzdbhIokkVLIaiszD9dJNs8GTodpvx2Gjf=s484" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="365" data-original-width="484" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEipdmPNjTHg4G-ZUpvVpFyvz8gfp6-xMxRRcW9orRW6sM1DerxtWQtTTN282J8oLvBq-MGEh5Diz3NiuRFIlTShUTxK9t9N7HuM0-AqJZ2jnCoJRILNpmUt9Ji1b1lNUXT2ZH1w_sdoYUmKMP7_jUuGImTzdbhIokkVLIaiszD9dJNs8GTodpvx2Gjf=w400-h301" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Swirl tea set C1985<br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image Bob Steiner</span></i></div><p>Often glazed with different shades inside and out, Bob Steiner’s new ware was snapped up by Aucklanders looking for new lively shapes and fresh bright colours. A Swirl tea-set gained a merit award in the 1986 Fletcher Brownbuilt ceramic awards. </p><p>Initially working mostly on his own, Steiner developed his shapes and techniques and used plain glazes rather than brushwork. Rose Wallis decorated some early work with floral patterns. New shapes included deco-style ware - mugs, teapots, milk jugs and sugar bowls. </p><p>At first production was on a small scale. He sold from the D’Art Studio premises, and sometimes from stalls at the Victoria Park and Oriental Markets. Soon shops throughout New Zealand were keen to stock his work. One prominent retailer was the New Vision Gallery in Auckland. </p><p>The business stepped up in 1988 when Steiner established a workshop in his basement at home and began working with ceramic artist Sharyn Maude. Together they developed a range decorated with brightly coloured brushwork. Most of their collaborative work bears the Eido stamp. The pair joined the Pots of Ponsonby co-operative and had a very successful four years before going their separate ways. For a time after the partnership ended, Sharyn Maude made very similar mugs, marked with her name only.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgrHWLgiZE0ZxUHaGHNR2gxJg5Lg1coxqDKMaN0fGULR4WSa1_8o5VomHg1x31qBY3xGPN7W4ykz37rGcjwbJwg1Eo0teoDK2V5ufOuXLjB7Chq7ly3PCfsI70Q7j2804bXE9SfEe0-QZdyqav-UOyo6MTrc3DcerwKrakLNumz-2-4M_ehkDRhqlEj=s500" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="332" data-original-width="500" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgrHWLgiZE0ZxUHaGHNR2gxJg5Lg1coxqDKMaN0fGULR4WSa1_8o5VomHg1x31qBY3xGPN7W4ykz37rGcjwbJwg1Eo0teoDK2V5ufOuXLjB7Chq7ly3PCfsI70Q7j2804bXE9SfEe0-QZdyqav-UOyo6MTrc3DcerwKrakLNumz-2-4M_ehkDRhqlEj=w400-h265" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Early deco teapot. Decoration by Sharyn Maude C1988<br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image Bob Steiner </span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgVBJa6Eb7gyaiCNn1rdk11n4UDp_XaCBUtdaWsxt2mhRRvVACGPKsAb7qw8snp93dRKj8jgAu7XHjLLLE4ZxdDZBX5tyLHEkmOyYJQ58pl6M2O8gfs5w6EVDqtLvUJRnYlNBwb-2AtvTZ7gYfuGiSs8_aTd68LIrlvTUNj33aam6Exx1bY7X7A4wu4=s784" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="470" data-original-width="784" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgVBJa6Eb7gyaiCNn1rdk11n4UDp_XaCBUtdaWsxt2mhRRvVACGPKsAb7qw8snp93dRKj8jgAu7XHjLLLE4ZxdDZBX5tyLHEkmOyYJQ58pl6M2O8gfs5w6EVDqtLvUJRnYlNBwb-2AtvTZ7gYfuGiSs8_aTd68LIrlvTUNj33aam6Exx1bY7X7A4wu4=w640-h384" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>This Hexagonal coffee set is an early creation. It was decorated by Sharyn Maude C1988/1989, Coffee pot height 22 cm<br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Valerie Monk</span></i></div><p>Occasionally collectors come across Crown Lynn shapes with the Steiner/Sharyn Maude Eido backstamp. After Crown Lynn closed in 1989, Steiner bought a whole lot of unglazed blanks – mainly dinner plates and a few odds and ends like gravy boats from the 1980s Modello Collection. The blanks were decorated at the Steiner workshops and on-sold. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgHOnY0lmV6s2a9F94izowjfVcBr6vipOSIHyPh7L8n09N3497VneFdmmWx02oxJLJd40FW6BGccOKWwAjOzWAjgHHn55bbIxoXR22TwrXHcTyDkQbO7Rzi5R88oS1jvGtpzYdwNrk9KooLufxg4ikp_1V4qAjZJUMCHWJBZHMMeZeWzHlYlrWX8oIK=s960" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgHOnY0lmV6s2a9F94izowjfVcBr6vipOSIHyPh7L8n09N3497VneFdmmWx02oxJLJd40FW6BGccOKWwAjOzWAjgHHn55bbIxoXR22TwrXHcTyDkQbO7Rzi5R88oS1jvGtpzYdwNrk9KooLufxg4ikp_1V4qAjZJUMCHWJBZHMMeZeWzHlYlrWX8oIK=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Gravy boat decorated by Sharyn Maude. The blank was purchased at the Crown Lynn factory closure. <br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Valerie Monk </span></i></div><p>Many of the shapes Bob Steiner developed during the late 1980s-1990s are still in production – for example tall Cuba jugs, vases, assorted mugs and coffee pots, and teapots and cups and saucers. A classic rounded teapot set was inspired by the German Bauhaus design movement. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEizbWV0-0oFNv1WXL4szqt-HH5iSElm1WbCbOoIlnjEr0gMK7WX4AU4LCv3qBUOeSlbgK8cSKqoCR4EY2FMAF8NC-WqZHdSIlSL5BbQs0cYppAW8kdI1CRVey9zB8JKW2GcIfbEeVfvXe1nEV2frQZ--8Ar2h_2jW2R7cu5IV-XqZzRCfrjAZE9V9rl=s440" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="314" data-original-width="440" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEizbWV0-0oFNv1WXL4szqt-HH5iSElm1WbCbOoIlnjEr0gMK7WX4AU4LCv3qBUOeSlbgK8cSKqoCR4EY2FMAF8NC-WqZHdSIlSL5BbQs0cYppAW8kdI1CRVey9zB8JKW2GcIfbEeVfvXe1nEV2frQZ--8Ar2h_2jW2R7cu5IV-XqZzRCfrjAZE9V9rl=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>This teapot from the late 1980s is still popular<br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image Bob Steiner</span></i> </div><p>A line of vases still being made today dates back to Bob’s original technique, slicing and reshaping hand-thrown ware. The Cactus, Round Leaf and Pointed Leaf vases were first made in 1986. They were difficult to slipcast until the moulds were remade by retired Crown Lynn modeller John Cowdery. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiRbrnhMIpJTDbVSJ85pRQuy81lQj8ZJPsatbfh_EEhkvMsSO66djkz_AEllqvWZ-aXAVCIoWLJmSlSh0xd3yc4lPf8XeDFeFN6YGi7VcTallZRT2OhwWkS8LJkw_0UB57d_WBlQpvxsrvzaxb8nEjLkDu55Z7PAOSWb_tv5lDy_3jSsXFyENI8t8Se=s512" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="379" data-original-width="512" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiRbrnhMIpJTDbVSJ85pRQuy81lQj8ZJPsatbfh_EEhkvMsSO66djkz_AEllqvWZ-aXAVCIoWLJmSlSh0xd3yc4lPf8XeDFeFN6YGi7VcTallZRT2OhwWkS8LJkw_0UB57d_WBlQpvxsrvzaxb8nEjLkDu55Z7PAOSWb_tv5lDy_3jSsXFyENI8t8Se=w400-h296" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Steiner vases. From left, Cactus, Round Leaf, Pointed Leaf. Cactus vase height 40cm<br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image Bob Steiner</span></i><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></div><p>After a decade working in co-operatives, in 1991 Bob Steiner opened his own workshop and retail business at 440 Kingsland Road. For a couple of years he also sold at Pots of Ponsonby but that relationship faded as turnover grew at the main shop. After the move to Kingsland, Bob ventured into more sculptural work, including striking eccentric pieces like his rockets and lionfish. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh5iz4KPsPDQimEyJakNR4il4t4cad7zF188yKItgkA_pCLkqHq-JssiQI1pB7q_iRH7HcgH9bfkLqpysYPBU8m0IQ3ca8qnKm-4tGsmD7uHRHNdk7fhY5ddXeF4qE_GLFS2UvP0a3EJz1wOHrGvSxcjmw6zNKcMfz8jo6tDhIuYzFrIPaQH0W519nZ=s1004" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1004" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh5iz4KPsPDQimEyJakNR4il4t4cad7zF188yKItgkA_pCLkqHq-JssiQI1pB7q_iRH7HcgH9bfkLqpysYPBU8m0IQ3ca8qnKm-4tGsmD7uHRHNdk7fhY5ddXeF4qE_GLFS2UvP0a3EJz1wOHrGvSxcjmw6zNKcMfz8jo6tDhIuYzFrIPaQH0W519nZ=w400-h286" width="400" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Wall-mounted lionfish decorated by Frana Stanish. Recently brought back into production, the lionfish are now sold in plain glazes only. Largest lionfish height 28 cm<br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Valerie Monk</span> </i></div><p>By now Bob had joined forces with Frana Stanish and together they developed a range of colourful patterns applied with brushes and hand-cut sponges. At its height the business employed five women decorators. The best-selling design was Aster which came in three colourways – marigold, purple and green. The Cactus and Anemone patterns were also popular. These sponged and hand-brushed styles peaked around the mid-1990s. In 1996 Frana Stanish left the business, but her patterns were replicated for a couple more years by another decorator, Jo McClean. </p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi_WJYnk13GtDnPv5MtyuMW4AJ9TpZBNkx7dcneppYSlcrgYforfjt64hNVRfx1XBxbMrEq9_2bEMqEB9azqMwOg_rgbcxpjrfaV6sWOiPqzCXWZuS6LXhzs1LCuDWfYY21JuKNoGxRBM3_9kUDsyEoTm8cZB8Dq5qjkDtfdUDdRe5OWvNhn42OiU86=s617" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="302" data-original-width="617" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi_WJYnk13GtDnPv5MtyuMW4AJ9TpZBNkx7dcneppYSlcrgYforfjt64hNVRfx1XBxbMrEq9_2bEMqEB9azqMwOg_rgbcxpjrfaV6sWOiPqzCXWZuS6LXhzs1LCuDWfYY21JuKNoGxRBM3_9kUDsyEoTm8cZB8Dq5qjkDtfdUDdRe5OWvNhn42OiU86=w640-h314" width="640" /></a></p><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Steiner mugs in Cactus, Marigold Aster and Anemone patterns. Decorated by Frana Stanish <br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Valerie Monk </span></i></div><p>Toward the end of the 1990s the market for multi-coloured hand painted ware was fading and Steiner created his bold single-colour matt glazes, including the very popular electric blue. </p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFlp8rbXHVlzB2QkXIk6b1pT_1K12wmo21ZMHmqZqYkXcpy3_TVkiowEuVx4SEdgFeXtbgjuQetC3bEXfVt07KNdNhXjVDLksJopZS1UkVZLwizt_Yr-QtbUAahicOhoo3QMZoRe8_mNjP1mmlv1BBTth21UpmmgVVYIzSovFC5lqDrDjS9gVcYN2K=s579" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="579" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFlp8rbXHVlzB2QkXIk6b1pT_1K12wmo21ZMHmqZqYkXcpy3_TVkiowEuVx4SEdgFeXtbgjuQetC3bEXfVt07KNdNhXjVDLksJopZS1UkVZLwizt_Yr-QtbUAahicOhoo3QMZoRe8_mNjP1mmlv1BBTth21UpmmgVVYIzSovFC5lqDrDjS9gVcYN2K=w331-h400" width="331" /></a></p><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Towering Steiner Cuba jugs in colourful glazes were first made in the late 1990s. When he was modelling this jug, Bob dropped a cylinder of clay on the floor to flatten the base, and to create a more relaxed shape. Every slipcast jug carries his handprint on one side, where he squeezed the soft raw clay shape of the original. The same form was used as Cuba Vases and later Cuba lights. Jug height 40cm<br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image Bob Steiner</span></i></div><p>In 2002 Reg Matthews, originally from Beach Artware, began working with Bob Steiner. He suggested a range of square wall hangings. Inspired by his association with the native bush in the Hokianga, Bob developed a very successful new line of wall art, at first rectangular and square plaques, and later birds, leaves and flowers. All of these pieces can be arranged on a wall in an endless variety of configurations. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgA1PP9608TU3dfC2qUR_9XuZG1tPbrNCfN0XvRaWbLOv5BHc_Ryv3JRmyOSFZ8hrFkxM4O27lP8WBz1kwPcqxMKnVQWj89uku-1jSfPRh8tGdJ2pnupdfG7S5sbRnPZtX_8Bk_xVL51tAHNHBrv6JQ2GPHXoIbaNfPNd4mvxSefjezQ_pfXf9K6F9z=s824" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="465" data-original-width="824" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgA1PP9608TU3dfC2qUR_9XuZG1tPbrNCfN0XvRaWbLOv5BHc_Ryv3JRmyOSFZ8hrFkxM4O27lP8WBz1kwPcqxMKnVQWj89uku-1jSfPRh8tGdJ2pnupdfG7S5sbRnPZtX_8Bk_xVL51tAHNHBrv6JQ2GPHXoIbaNfPNd4mvxSefjezQ_pfXf9K6F9z=w640-h362" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Steiner wall plaques form an exquisite memorial at Mercy Hospice in Ponsonby. Bereaved families are able to buy a plaque to remember a loved one, and proceeds go to the hospice. The plaques are arranged on walls surrounding a peaceful courtyard. The project began in the early 2000s and continues to this day. Here, a new plaque is being added to the wall.<br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image Bob Steiner</span></i></div><p>In 2009 Steiner Studios moved from the home workshop to a purpose-built pottery in Avondale. In 2002 Bob remarried and his wife Alison Steiner was very active in the business, particularly in management, business development and strategy. Bob and Alison had a son together. </p><p>Today, a small team continues to recreate Bob Steiner classics – and he still keeps the work exciting by creating new pieces. New shapes are first roughed out in clay, then finely sculpted in plaster. Slipcasting moulds are made from the final plaster prototype. </p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgddKIvTm0x0JW7oStGuyniwZFtJ0wxfsX0d8lGywfiW-bKFMBWPAS45rTXqMMNLv0zRKTeFNeSGYO_xLaWZSqVI_bhtnCnJE1Q5Uq8J1sQYjwF5cuYPx--7TdhFacMaBzOu7GbGERB8oQOgQ22qLJVa9hvHoJ_tbLceHcGJLyi0PSOBljGaGLIaJG-=s387" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="364" data-original-width="387" height="376" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgddKIvTm0x0JW7oStGuyniwZFtJ0wxfsX0d8lGywfiW-bKFMBWPAS45rTXqMMNLv0zRKTeFNeSGYO_xLaWZSqVI_bhtnCnJE1Q5Uq8J1sQYjwF5cuYPx--7TdhFacMaBzOu7GbGERB8oQOgQ22qLJVa9hvHoJ_tbLceHcGJLyi0PSOBljGaGLIaJG-=w400-h376" width="400" /></a></p><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Wall decoration assembled from Steiner flowers, birds and leaves<br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image Bob Steiner </span></i></div><p>Steiner takes much of his inspiration from New Zealand culture, often incorporating tapa and koru designs. Looking to nature for inspiration, there are skillfully rendered flowers, leaves, birds, bees, and a sea creatures series including shells, starfish and fish. Some small dip bowls were created using the direct imprint of a leaf – eg totara, taraire and fern. Birds include the New Zealand ruru, tui and the ever-popular fantail (piwakawaka). </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhhcNf0zbs4Sclhl3NxlskQ44gtYM9V_6xvxiJL-YaBvWUmzi8gTSEb0MKS1t4cSMkj_bIr9JgpzRaLualtaSL_ye96h5Q6SwRcYQeQ4-zfE-cNwBXdmYmgXbafFsBLbUKBr9PycEYztV6TJzQaJqQk3w23FYD4mDaT9S8lHgcGiwyns1Cb3bWhmvXP=s440" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="340" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhhcNf0zbs4Sclhl3NxlskQ44gtYM9V_6xvxiJL-YaBvWUmzi8gTSEb0MKS1t4cSMkj_bIr9JgpzRaLualtaSL_ye96h5Q6SwRcYQeQ4-zfE-cNwBXdmYmgXbafFsBLbUKBr9PycEYztV6TJzQaJqQk3w23FYD4mDaT9S8lHgcGiwyns1Cb3bWhmvXP=s320" width="247" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Steiner Fantail (Piwakawaka) Approx height 15 cm<br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image Bob Steiner</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhzal4gWoLPtKAB2PIwqnA2dpEpyG5A9OOGj1xg2SLgfn3Z0uIISGZZ0URLMmW5autmm9Z8-lFmlxKPxI9aRXdHliIhfMNKXNfiPsH7ufS92c-jKRc9UIaD-LHSNgcEzkdWRaTYyaRkcPv0u-hlue2Hwvg6xGeg-BSpSAkgcv6SPhw5IEADvjm7HZmd=s377" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="256" data-original-width="377" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhzal4gWoLPtKAB2PIwqnA2dpEpyG5A9OOGj1xg2SLgfn3Z0uIISGZZ0URLMmW5autmm9Z8-lFmlxKPxI9aRXdHliIhfMNKXNfiPsH7ufS92c-jKRc9UIaD-LHSNgcEzkdWRaTYyaRkcPv0u-hlue2Hwvg6xGeg-BSpSAkgcv6SPhw5IEADvjm7HZmd=w640-h434" width="640" /></a><i>Above: Steiner once bought a fresh hapuku - a substantial purchase at $100. A wall decoration was modelled from the complete fish, and then it was turned into a sumptuous meal. Later, the picked-over skeleton served an artistic purpose. The bones were cleaned then used to model a series of decorative wall plaques. <br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image Bob Steiner</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;">Some Steiner pieces are quite quirky – for example a kiwi steps directly out of the wall, and there’s a snapper head with ears and another with horns. A decorative rocket in four different sizes has engendered speculation over the years – it has even been mistaken for a half-peeled corn cob. </div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg-rnwCJh1dbW82Okd0w17ESTk5_8nE81RqDZ8_kgvDETxQBkx5B9vs1pZ09qO6_OQLU1qDRr5ap4qpp-EHo9hO4RmKiQGQQKxtYlmsNWFtuH8kYoQOZbDcC7m0jyjhGYoZKScWNgDzMUB0MTJI814CxTC_GZFFTdHIB1ekIfWrIekWQ_LTcMQoHKzW=s3442" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3442" data-original-width="2534" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg-rnwCJh1dbW82Okd0w17ESTk5_8nE81RqDZ8_kgvDETxQBkx5B9vs1pZ09qO6_OQLU1qDRr5ap4qpp-EHo9hO4RmKiQGQQKxtYlmsNWFtuH8kYoQOZbDcC7m0jyjhGYoZKScWNgDzMUB0MTJI814CxTC_GZFFTdHIB1ekIfWrIekWQ_LTcMQoHKzW=w295-h400" width="295" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Steiner wall rocket<br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Private collection </span></i></div><p>Bob Steiner has also made one-off sculptures, some simply for his own satisfaction and others for fundraising for organisations, eg Tiritiri Matangi Island. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjc6-FTcvl-GQDqR8gjYElGBfHJREoA9lZmIi0j6uyL4TdfCxJsY8LodCYL-vGh7dxLlx3CJi2_N-nq8l1MRCPzfK-TycoUDh2Cn0IKWaO1T2qShFo9vlCDG3p7u_JMpoqNaTayW3n79SV3aC9csEGEbvL1OSxPoOhh69v8k0lgjcLgRG7sF69LL9JA=s1350" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1003" data-original-width="1350" height="475" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjc6-FTcvl-GQDqR8gjYElGBfHJREoA9lZmIi0j6uyL4TdfCxJsY8LodCYL-vGh7dxLlx3CJi2_N-nq8l1MRCPzfK-TycoUDh2Cn0IKWaO1T2qShFo9vlCDG3p7u_JMpoqNaTayW3n79SV3aC9csEGEbvL1OSxPoOhh69v8k0lgjcLgRG7sF69LL9JA=w640-h475" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>The Time Bomb, a one-off humorous clock<br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image Bob Steiner</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEicFAqxHQyvMKD1iYYaSd-sfsYthORR7PufsrZknf33ZEzsgVwzQTNPE0_kJ35qow2uWImFA54hDMtoeZyMHlOdQwrKgfapOwHOkjXYbTDHT5tjxEYly-J4pU0LBzcYG6YXuVEYoP_IygGa1ffN1qol6xQKrAGXSRs5OLho_UNW09-oXPWRfETlOmuV=s440" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="276" data-original-width="440" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEicFAqxHQyvMKD1iYYaSd-sfsYthORR7PufsrZknf33ZEzsgVwzQTNPE0_kJ35qow2uWImFA54hDMtoeZyMHlOdQwrKgfapOwHOkjXYbTDHT5tjxEYly-J4pU0LBzcYG6YXuVEYoP_IygGa1ffN1qol6xQKrAGXSRs5OLho_UNW09-oXPWRfETlOmuV=w400-h251" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Soda-glazed bowl originally sculpted as a fundraiser for Titirtiri Matangi Island bird sanctuary<br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image Bob Steiner</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">In addition, the classic Steiner dishes, ornamental jugs, lamp bases, teapots, mugs and vases still sell well.</div><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi6eX-hnlrUzW2gLFop2MUjgZ5RSzQSdidQ50_9AriNqty5qze12K6nvWYPkoLNpXFsu_vuEj9tukjqIUnIYmJsyMR0oM4m_17RbuawtugTfF1ZiFdwj5rfjIeVqYTs0mwNOREQ3P2iwXCKQolSHm2SEUeAauJ7pTxJnerS84KRiCNTkLhh9ymAlxJw=s440" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="330" data-original-width="440" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi6eX-hnlrUzW2gLFop2MUjgZ5RSzQSdidQ50_9AriNqty5qze12K6nvWYPkoLNpXFsu_vuEj9tukjqIUnIYmJsyMR0oM4m_17RbuawtugTfF1ZiFdwj5rfjIeVqYTs0mwNOREQ3P2iwXCKQolSHm2SEUeAauJ7pTxJnerS84KRiCNTkLhh9ymAlxJw=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></p><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Classic Steiner cup and saucer sets<br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image Bob Steiner </span></i></div><p>Other more pragmatic work includes the development of stylish and durable restaurant ware. For the hospitality industry, ware must resist chipping and staining, and be able to withstand endless dishwashing cycles. That work has paid off, now Steiner ware is used by many of Auckland’s top eateries. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi8QAD8_qFt_GhWnpD1gvFXYoHvmDJDhnvlTUap5Te98CWWq54bjxm-bz4Ny70sUj9wbxM30_jmPjwS6Pkc_PEvbBBNeotQitzryaMSbrjczEgRZb-D9RBfoT1kGzkjSgwS9pVsH1ErNT8bnRBngaDXFeN_VLneq2lGqsDuDlVKhT0wUVX_sbY3xEWQ=s320" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="169" data-original-width="320" height="338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi8QAD8_qFt_GhWnpD1gvFXYoHvmDJDhnvlTUap5Te98CWWq54bjxm-bz4Ny70sUj9wbxM30_jmPjwS6Pkc_PEvbBBNeotQitzryaMSbrjczEgRZb-D9RBfoT1kGzkjSgwS9pVsH1ErNT8bnRBngaDXFeN_VLneq2lGqsDuDlVKhT0wUVX_sbY3xEWQ=w640-h338" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Restaurant ware<br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image Bob Steiner</span></i></div><p><br /></p><p><b><u>Bob Steiner timeline</u></b></p><p>1974 began professional pottery in Kohukohu in the Hokianga . Hand-thrown ware carries the impressed volcano mark symbolising earth and fire. </p><p>1984 – moved back to Auckland and began making cut-sided ware, including plates, bowls, tea sets. Deco cups were also quite early and later deco teapots with the zig-zag pointed handles. Ware from this period is marked with the Bob Steiner New Zealand signature stamp (see backstamps below).</p><p>C1985-1991 Eido branded with Sharyn Maude </p><p>1986 Fletcher Brownbuilt Awards certificate of merit</p><p>1986 D’Art Studio folded and Steiner travelled to the US. </p><p>1988 After return from overseas, set up a workshop in his basement </p><p>1991 – opened Steiner Studios shop in Kingsland </p><p>From 1992 - C1997 Frana Stanish two backstamps. Frana and then the smaller FS </p><p>C1993/4 single colour matt glazes developed </p><p>1997 Steiner began putting dates on his backstamps from this year</p><p>2002-2003 Reg Matthews joined, began making wall art </p><p>2005 wall art first appears in trade show displays </p><p>2005 transparent stick-on labels used</p><p>C2003 began making dip bowls imprinted with natural leaves </p><p>2008 piwakawaka and large tui appear in trade show displays</p><p>2008 wall art squares appear in trade show displays</p><p>2008 University of Auckland 125 years commemorative gift </p><p>2009 wall art flowers appear in trade show displays</p><p>2009 moved from a home workshop to new premises in Avondale </p><p>2010 first lamp bases in trade show displays</p><p>2012 large snapper in trade show displays </p><p><br /></p><p><b><u>Bob Steiner marks and backstamps.</u></b> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjOkEW1433g3skH5NtDv5uSdqYsTSeCyxxmeBsYPOJFpzU30UaV-LacPW3sKvqo987HEIsJIR4eGxBkP31MfTPX4HGzRvG_oktobbAXw6f05MhXyiV0b4AxGDfDW6ApjeuXs-QZyUHBFPJnOvEBGM085oUCaAkdlZrk76OVbXwMe3U73967g2fZXbTS=s381" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="182" data-original-width="381" height="153" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjOkEW1433g3skH5NtDv5uSdqYsTSeCyxxmeBsYPOJFpzU30UaV-LacPW3sKvqo987HEIsJIR4eGxBkP31MfTPX4HGzRvG_oktobbAXw6f05MhXyiV0b4AxGDfDW6ApjeuXs-QZyUHBFPJnOvEBGM085oUCaAkdlZrk76OVbXwMe3U73967g2fZXbTS=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="text-align: center;">1974-1984"Volcano" mark on hand-thrown pieces. </span></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhajcyzlD23mS0zqUQgz3sjK5ybKMVv_YlaqbG7G9Qtfa8o9-uTa7Oam1Lt4FbKgvNnEB7TWpgG1xjo0oPZ1I1gTSzeNBzYFbjIDLBRENCJvHvwTi6UUIxy0oRF2V8eUvDfRh-2GgIwm9pQG22uhX6dIXg66ZylCrA4fkMtSGyuURIO7cZNRmsETdGv=s358" style="clear: left; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="147" data-original-width="349" height="135" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj9jIvIubtE4XPGKz8axBvRVkQ3AEr4Hl9U2bK2SnwM1zYjo8FnBbZL2OO1biW9RwWMqr-dL323qnt_YAL4_gsoMyatXkoRT2SBdc-fGr8nCj6r4yEOfG818tmkoT4KYjXRxEtRLUMI54WcjE3j4PGI773K5U5WvB5qX2qRK3JYY904F5wPi4SvwZzm=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">1992-C1997 Made in New Zealand Steiner Studios</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjATBkTeZBEEkMAKsEz363x-LceuusGbc9J5nVe5eaFNFl0k_pvDCxnpYXiblQtF5xwgGPoXP7gqjCem_dwSaYnUP0DZwqu51cBq7EW_bryOeLC4yqTevg2A6GiMmsyZXeG9Y8mARYjSX0iXeGmOgKw9cNjvxsQUly6s-90a6x8_a3EGnaHtmanAfQs=s321" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="151" data-original-width="321" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjATBkTeZBEEkMAKsEz363x-LceuusGbc9J5nVe5eaFNFl0k_pvDCxnpYXiblQtF5xwgGPoXP7gqjCem_dwSaYnUP0DZwqu51cBq7EW_bryOeLC4yqTevg2A6GiMmsyZXeG9Y8mARYjSX0iXeGmOgKw9cNjvxsQUly6s-90a6x8_a3EGnaHtmanAfQs=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">1992 Made in New Zealand Steiner Studios Frana Handpainted</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEindPAMJ7IVo19ZxiFIZVTJ372pWKA_cC9nvAgQLvJXIpRjG8HaMUL_rA324epUWtq45BRme3w3hua68wr5yKPrg6FYfxJv81lX6_JKDgUyFdic-_3kwCa7OI0w_37nJ65VjsMpIrFHFhARAZ3KniOxdD6WuNuDY-OCkcwrUPwpevcXP8pQahIAfLUc=s377" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="224" data-original-width="377" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEindPAMJ7IVo19ZxiFIZVTJ372pWKA_cC9nvAgQLvJXIpRjG8HaMUL_rA324epUWtq45BRme3w3hua68wr5yKPrg6FYfxJv81lX6_JKDgUyFdic-_3kwCa7OI0w_37nJ65VjsMpIrFHFhARAZ3KniOxdD6WuNuDY-OCkcwrUPwpevcXP8pQahIAfLUc=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">1992-1997 Made in New Zealand Steiner Studios FS and Steiner Studios FS</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjG4D5h4hVYpkE49HTxWmll5uQdNb1wo5q63RTBcQyO5IPUCpDOdMfo35v_RN8qwBMftk0Tmy00hIy3WZgp2ZkPeNyBGhRNY6LW3vfQYNNo1htDJOpG9ojNKoNQuspmH9HCHqZ-PKPC3x5gr2tzwrwrkcG5X0QySJ5AaVI6isV67mBH1X89SzijNINc=s399" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="137" data-original-width="399" height="110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjG4D5h4hVYpkE49HTxWmll5uQdNb1wo5q63RTBcQyO5IPUCpDOdMfo35v_RN8qwBMftk0Tmy00hIy3WZgp2ZkPeNyBGhRNY6LW3vfQYNNo1htDJOpG9ojNKoNQuspmH9HCHqZ-PKPC3x5gr2tzwrwrkcG5X0QySJ5AaVI6isV67mBH1X89SzijNINc=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">C1992-C1999 Made in New Zealand Steiner Studios (Frana pattern painted by another decorator) </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgoTFZiO1J-Rn4s_iycRXewye8xu4zOViyrDIV6QDQJs85wfOZZDW7m8GdLfE_gv7I-XcSHfJ4J12dAMvq2i58HXqdfevOsxrfj99YVGEtACzs21tYSOOjJ-dY9Zqx0muRIQv1d_TMTRmCxCwvbvDEamZhksL3k2vY7ufUsBsfQ3osFIxApx9ShofFW=s321" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="133" data-original-width="321" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgoTFZiO1J-Rn4s_iycRXewye8xu4zOViyrDIV6QDQJs85wfOZZDW7m8GdLfE_gv7I-XcSHfJ4J12dAMvq2i58HXqdfevOsxrfj99YVGEtACzs21tYSOOjJ-dY9Zqx0muRIQv1d_TMTRmCxCwvbvDEamZhksL3k2vY7ufUsBsfQ3osFIxApx9ShofFW=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">1997-2002 Made in New Zealand Steiner Studios 97 (I believe 1997 was the first year Steiner dated his ware) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="305" data-original-width="376" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi_UO6b0agmyg0I6otY29aTuSz6W2thQtswt7__lpotfc16ktbiFglDWasH2sc5ml3CynYe_gvIxcuh_uOSDVlh_yUjcBJ2qU9Iy0tL2C8VKcp35HPlohgepW1QncaB9wmx6w2BmOCnN1As9SslaERCJRcQKGqqIyJdV4RMgnmi2EYPJsMiD-fctQkW=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">2010 Steiner Ceramics New Zealand stamp plus New Zealand Flora Kawakawa sticker </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiuEYoB8TH2j2-yqwEtSaU7nhij67T7pAywubz28HWCq-ae4CsQ9E9sYxT4YasES_V580wYucNzb7n9BTh9j3oJvuJwh1POlI1f3BFokL3HOmWZMjFTax_NMvlK2rAFIPllhbAFPinxcfKhC9FKgHC5Kig9M3vZ94k6AV6YKE7dctLTvSx7n6zSsvkZ=s447" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="331" data-original-width="447" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiuEYoB8TH2j2-yqwEtSaU7nhij67T7pAywubz28HWCq-ae4CsQ9E9sYxT4YasES_V580wYucNzb7n9BTh9j3oJvuJwh1POlI1f3BFokL3HOmWZMjFTax_NMvlK2rAFIPllhbAFPinxcfKhC9FKgHC5Kig9M3vZ94k6AV6YKE7dctLTvSx7n6zSsvkZ=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">2015 Steiner Ceramics NZ (Kiwi stepping out of the wall) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgYhUT92Kq9UURbfpHrANecsWy16DIQSnI4J9Xam2h3kltsu9v2-Wr2-VL4miDdRxJdKUlh1ZlX9fbU5uVvp8ChmKn2Hojx5UlZv2ugclLX3JohbjHe8M4i1rxph0bfL7uUbP_yFwuc14gHcX4pMw4VWTD1zsayQsmF9RcL1O-8YVKQoMzTFb8ThifO=s474" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="146" data-original-width="474" height="99" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgYhUT92Kq9UURbfpHrANecsWy16DIQSnI4J9Xam2h3kltsu9v2-Wr2-VL4miDdRxJdKUlh1ZlX9fbU5uVvp8ChmKn2Hojx5UlZv2ugclLX3JohbjHe8M4i1rxph0bfL7uUbP_yFwuc14gHcX4pMw4VWTD1zsayQsmF9RcL1O-8YVKQoMzTFb8ThifO=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="185" data-original-width="433" height="137" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgib2s4DBtoAf2zvPtowZrbcZLxdjzPUkqpCz6MCEYLerrm-XyANHRB1nLxfF0NZozH7xwjjlryK4iu2kXtEkoIPBdGGWui41Lj8U4msSYG4_u-euOqBMkfz7x2v2THbvg_P3Ezl5vuTr2wtT8Gk6_L1RFIu5E7No3DRlW_DNnFIctdha95Kiqip7Jr=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">From 1996 Blue Ponga Designs </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhjWdtbpd6WpbNBSY9YwbCM5HC5f-loDGasjDUBFg3EVut6bloJ0mCLM-xdFDbNlc0TpKtnYHWnk0DhUKAdPUeJUMT3knSmPESbj0U5hYhDLFZwdpeCpuyl7OqS7oyC1S7KGEB1YviMnZUJBrP9ysKZNVTMw1spMa8SaQvwkIokK-T3ovk6Sp1d2_IM=s410" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="147" data-original-width="410" height="115" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhjWdtbpd6WpbNBSY9YwbCM5HC5f-loDGasjDUBFg3EVut6bloJ0mCLM-xdFDbNlc0TpKtnYHWnk0DhUKAdPUeJUMT3knSmPESbj0U5hYhDLFZwdpeCpuyl7OqS7oyC1S7KGEB1YviMnZUJBrP9ysKZNVTMw1spMa8SaQvwkIokK-T3ovk6Sp1d2_IM=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">2004 Bob Steiner Ceramics New Zealand (impressed)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh4dxHTX2JlDYimk3Ixpx2VLoeVr67RSjWo3O8ulRIy0wXH8fKCiqcg2Mvs5Dx1yDc1mOvpVjNJ7IMtBUWByhrnFTcJV--9DOzJPWBQ38Nszw-H4jBzVHEJ59Bt0TAQqLfIVaCkuJtW1T61DQMQQhNQlZGU8r-RNfkbQulJWu8-oI-OKlK5KzNm-fPe=s438" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="125" data-original-width="438" height="91" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh4dxHTX2JlDYimk3Ixpx2VLoeVr67RSjWo3O8ulRIy0wXH8fKCiqcg2Mvs5Dx1yDc1mOvpVjNJ7IMtBUWByhrnFTcJV--9DOzJPWBQ38Nszw-H4jBzVHEJ59Bt0TAQqLfIVaCkuJtW1T61DQMQQhNQlZGU8r-RNfkbQulJWu8-oI-OKlK5KzNm-fPe=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">2004 or 2005 New Zealand impressed (pipi dip bowl) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgdSChM65ldZy9fn2i9i8RRwPgpNRl_iQDNHn3Ns61ohzR_gFlN79Td7rnVnPyOeY-L2PFEDlPn8Srp9gS0XI2cSYN_RPWLv9n63svFgLaMUGpsRjGArNlVbNW7ncpIRvEpGEhJwog6UcqQ0rbe6J90Tuq8ouaVWRYPYRoV4j7OIH_BS6Q-YKvtEsK9=s258" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="148" data-original-width="258" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgdSChM65ldZy9fn2i9i8RRwPgpNRl_iQDNHn3Ns61ohzR_gFlN79Td7rnVnPyOeY-L2PFEDlPn8Srp9gS0XI2cSYN_RPWLv9n63svFgLaMUGpsRjGArNlVbNW7ncpIRvEpGEhJwog6UcqQ0rbe6J90Tuq8ouaVWRYPYRoV4j7OIH_BS6Q-YKvtEsK9" width="258" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Bob Steiner Ceramics New Zealand (transparent sticker) date unknown </div><div><br /></div><div>ENDS </div><div><br /></div><div>The information for this post came from: </div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Bob Steiner's website www.steinerceramics.co.nz</li><li>Interviews with Bob Steiner by Valerie Monk and Ev Williams (2016) </li><li>Following that interview, Bob provided me with a selection of photographs and catalogues, and also added more information via informal conversations, documents and emails. </li><li>The New Zealand Pottery website www.newzealandpottery.net</li><li>Thanks also to Alison Steiner who complied records for my use and for future researchers. </li></ul></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgW4wMinnBRwJfSu9dysmcZV28jd1Nk5cZ4Qzz5rIWb2uIv40jiR5YtAg6VtGQceZwfpdsQ5PG6Wq10HW1pc2-B1Zky4ZoLd7ccjp8fGa0Joqem4zEEgQo6Xam4Tl9xnhJOM1blsHHlimN9fPa39Jeioln1b5ogXraUF27Soo-tszC_P1KRd_-LKOzK=s579" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="579" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgW4wMinnBRwJfSu9dysmcZV28jd1Nk5cZ4Qzz5rIWb2uIv40jiR5YtAg6VtGQceZwfpdsQ5PG6Wq10HW1pc2-B1Zky4ZoLd7ccjp8fGa0Joqem4zEEgQo6Xam4Tl9xnhJOM1blsHHlimN9fPa39Jeioln1b5ogXraUF27Soo-tszC_P1KRd_-LKOzK=s320" width="265" /></a></div><br /><br /></div>Val Monkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11564133844683942529noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2880978462637000167.post-50528202299918351022020-11-07T15:37:00.000+13:002020-11-07T15:37:49.029+13:00Petra Ceramics 1988-2007<p>I treasure my Petra Ceramics collection for its fresh bright colours, hand-painted onto some of the whitest and most durable ware in the business. Below are some of my Petra jugs. The largest is 6.5 cm tall. </p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG5twBy9S6WkNzYKX_4gR5kl7AloN1Qe5Q3devXjwc_ikc818ItKMlRJscT5EiD2PC8cqztfzYFEOFPapyqIgieH42oUjSZryLnyxyZLqmNfeCG56_q2iSwmJikIw5NUb5lmaryZk7ACw/s978/Petra+jugs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="447" data-original-width="978" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG5twBy9S6WkNzYKX_4gR5kl7AloN1Qe5Q3devXjwc_ikc818ItKMlRJscT5EiD2PC8cqztfzYFEOFPapyqIgieH42oUjSZryLnyxyZLqmNfeCG56_q2iSwmJikIw5NUb5lmaryZk7ACw/w640-h292/Petra+jugs.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>This is the story of Petra Ceramics, as told to me by Petra herself. </p><p>German-born, Petra Donath came to New Zealand in the mid-1980s when she was 30 years old. Like many Aucklanders at that time she went to pottery night classes, hoping to learn new skills
and also to meet people and improve her English. Petra didn’t take to hand-throwing but then
a chance meeting with Christine Harris led her to slipcasting.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Inspired by Christine’s bold colourful mugs and vases, Petra
and her electrician husband Murray de Lacey set up a workshop in an empty
building on Karangahape Road – and Petra Potz was born.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Petra’s first materials – and a lot of help
and advice – came from Quentin and Kathy Whitehouse who ran Western Potters
Supplies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> B</span>y the late 1980s New Zealanders were craving colour and
Western Potters had begun selling bright new decorative pottery stains. Petra
was soon buying moulds, slip, colours and glazes from Western Potters, all
carted across Auckland in her little Morris Minor car.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5PDuBXmB5esLyz4dOVH14LZt2BkN0SZfrFn3YR0TihZKuZZtVCb9qMJD3jFtMiamF6Ndby-pv1RMHwuJi4fXxNyeM4Iwy_KVZfNfztcZX4xCM0ITaCaZl3sOV7o_BUSutx-wmXle4uHM/s615/petra+catalogue+05.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: right;"><img border="0" data-original-height="529" data-original-width="615" height="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5PDuBXmB5esLyz4dOVH14LZt2BkN0SZfrFn3YR0TihZKuZZtVCb9qMJD3jFtMiamF6Ndby-pv1RMHwuJi4fXxNyeM4Iwy_KVZfNfztcZX4xCM0ITaCaZl3sOV7o_BUSutx-wmXle4uHM/w640-h550/petra+catalogue+05.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Above: Petra with her earlier work, late 1980s. Photo courtesy Bruce Haliday</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1U4I3Eqr8hNSKQ_5dWKyt0jg8s3E94w-iHkq4DqwARen2-03EK_xlv8K1c1LAmfvzQVnPO6HA8Y1bU4gqISNNuuVfRqB1ZOFJTme90WtmMzEjhMYXj3FRLh5HUTtJEbMhyphenhyphenJhiAlnqomI/s713/Petra+21+zigzag+dish.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="424" data-original-width="713" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1U4I3Eqr8hNSKQ_5dWKyt0jg8s3E94w-iHkq4DqwARen2-03EK_xlv8K1c1LAmfvzQVnPO6HA8Y1bU4gqISNNuuVfRqB1ZOFJTme90WtmMzEjhMYXj3FRLh5HUTtJEbMhyphenhyphenJhiAlnqomI/w400-h238/Petra+21+zigzag+dish.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><i>Above: an early Petra Potz platter. Length approx. 30 cm. </i></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Money was tight after the 1987 stock market crash, and
do-it-yourself was the order of the day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>To apply her glazes, Petra used an old Electrolux vacuum cleaner with a
spray-painting attachment. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The first simple platters were made from stock moulds,
hand-painted and stamped ‘Petra Potz’ with a little kiwi emblem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On her first day at the Mission Bay craft
market everything sold out in less than an hour – a real boost since Petra had
no confidence in her decorating ability.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Soon Petra Potz were selling at a market in Devonport, then at Victoria
Park Market. The 1987 stock market crash had put an end to most of Murray’s electrical work,
so this new income was a godsend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <br /> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi_KJeb61HkG8qXmg_jbQu85ZhS2F2oJjSfY2K9_jFqe_o2azcLzDhl9wHnDwExUm_TGNWB_2399Jhwf-xxJdGGXNVpcF7sOd-KxlKCeJzSjErTeKoyCHy4Vqet9AonTw4S-dTlq_h4RQ/s711/Petra+blue.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="564" data-original-width="711" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi_KJeb61HkG8qXmg_jbQu85ZhS2F2oJjSfY2K9_jFqe_o2azcLzDhl9wHnDwExUm_TGNWB_2399Jhwf-xxJdGGXNVpcF7sOd-KxlKCeJzSjErTeKoyCHy4Vqet9AonTw4S-dTlq_h4RQ/w400-h318/Petra+blue.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><i>Above: Not all Petra’s early work was brightly coloured.
This coffee pot was modelled after a Susie Cooper shape, and the blue
decoration applied with a sponge. Coffee pot height 23 cm.</i></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQa1SKHk12yT-qzQZ-c_WfY8VZj0xbQ7dr-1GGzPdy-ClaZfyPEHDazycw25vVQqHpMnvqX5QQihw4VSPVFdiZfLuB9ja0mDnkc4CpekxcfdqZj7Lcs4MW5o_ATFBdnKLEGTZDMifCOWI/s749/Petra+candles+and+bowl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="749" height="462" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQa1SKHk12yT-qzQZ-c_WfY8VZj0xbQ7dr-1GGzPdy-ClaZfyPEHDazycw25vVQqHpMnvqX5QQihw4VSPVFdiZfLuB9ja0mDnkc4CpekxcfdqZj7Lcs4MW5o_ATFBdnKLEGTZDMifCOWI/w640-h462/Petra+candles+and+bowl.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><i>Above: Petra’s distinctive zig-zag candle holders and a
kidney-shaped dish. Both are marked Petra Potz. Candle holder height 29 cm.</i></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Soon Petra hired an assistant to help with selling, then for
a time Helen and David Osbourne from a new shop called Colours in Whangarei
retailed her entire output.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As the business grew, Petra moved her workshop from
Karangahape Rd to Stanley Street, then again to a factory in Akiraho Street in
Mount Eden. When Crown Lynn closed in 1989 Petra bought some factory equipment
and hired several Crown Lynn staff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By
now, plates and bowls were made on jiggers which were faster and more
consistent that slipcasting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
machinery was set up by Murray, who had come to work with her fulltime. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Alongside the factory area Petra set up an outlet shop,
furnished with second-hand glass shelves and an old silk parachute hung from
the ceiling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Customers could buy seconds
or full-price pieces while they watched the pottery at work on the other side
of the vast building.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvx6unNmQXSxAXT-C1XnA6XSlaJzDM8HwwExz00zQeXlGbOUfrQxKcy_5ekqHV55T_LUG3s-L1NLOx1ewYk78eMlmjksHtQKibmZrVnUDhBqlL5bq9p41KYR17QeK1ZChzSoOEK3g6X9Y/s1126/Petra+photos+show+room.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="615" data-original-width="1126" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvx6unNmQXSxAXT-C1XnA6XSlaJzDM8HwwExz00zQeXlGbOUfrQxKcy_5ekqHV55T_LUG3s-L1NLOx1ewYk78eMlmjksHtQKibmZrVnUDhBqlL5bq9p41KYR17QeK1ZChzSoOEK3g6X9Y/w640-h350/Petra+photos+show+room.jpg" width="640" /></a><i>A<span style="text-align: left;">bove: Petra Ceramics show-room and factory shop.</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><span style="text-align: left;">Mid-1990s. </span><span style="text-align: left;">Note the spectacular vase, top shelf, to left of photograph. Image</span></i><span style="text-align: left;"><i> courtesy Petra Donath.</i> </span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Petra and Murray ran a tight ship, with clearly defined
roles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was Murray’s job to keep the
machinery going, make the slip and manage the slipcasting process. Petra was
responsible for decoration, glazing and firing.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sir Tom Clark’s nephew, ‘young’ Tom Clark, helped a great
deal with the technical development of Petra’s slip. The main clay component came from
New Zealand China Clays at Matauri Bay, one of the whitest and best in the
world. Some of Petra’s early pieces have crazed and stained over the years, but
she and Murray worked hard to create a consistent quality product. They learned
to test their ware by putting samples in a pressure cooker for a couple of hours
– the equivalent of about ten years of household use. Any crazing signalled
that more work was needed on recipes and techniques.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Every item was cast in a mould or made on a jigger, then a
team of hard-working women fettled the unglazed pieces, smoothing rough edges
and removing any imperfections. Next the ware was decorated, then put through a
kiln, then dipped in clear glaze and fired again. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The factory was kept clean and dust-free to prevent contamination of the white clay base and bright colours. Initially Petra got her modelling done and moulds made by
freelancer Hemara Hemara. Before long she hired the services of Bruce Yallop,
another freelancer who had been a senior modeller at Crown Lynn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As Petra Ceramics grew, an in-house mould
maker was needed to reduce costs and speed up the process. After a search Petra
and Murray recruited an English mould maker who was working in South Africa.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJiJokUNWzE2Xyh6tGpdNip65JjadiXH9YNgr07eYM5uu6L0JaBYiZ1gxJScVAq6e5CwiPZ3UDpi7YO4bXBg_ftiu5WNDeXLwGc2uXqdr-WbYG0Z4969qGbEeMPtH5t6F2IDy-HRoQHJM/s1351/Petra+teapots.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="436" data-original-width="1351" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJiJokUNWzE2Xyh6tGpdNip65JjadiXH9YNgr07eYM5uu6L0JaBYiZ1gxJScVAq6e5CwiPZ3UDpi7YO4bXBg_ftiu5WNDeXLwGc2uXqdr-WbYG0Z4969qGbEeMPtH5t6F2IDy-HRoQHJM/w640-h206/Petra+teapots.jpg" width="640" /></a><i><span style="text-align: left;">Above: Petra Ceramics teapots.</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><span style="text-align: left;">Petra created the design on the left for her
own personal dinnerware.</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><span style="text-align: left;">Height 12 cm.</span></i></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtl4r3T4rk3cvlPapH4n2H4uc4kSTBRDwwOvx1EO5nG5HUmvksiaUDN1135sTMdPgRblX26YNazb3KQXvNeYmQ8U_529i-_2OSbXM3Mr54ctmYsgoG58SjsYML1mtlgC2PJuB6WAzQdzU/s654/petra+catalogue+04+bruce+haliday+black+and+white.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="335" data-original-width="654" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtl4r3T4rk3cvlPapH4n2H4uc4kSTBRDwwOvx1EO5nG5HUmvksiaUDN1135sTMdPgRblX26YNazb3KQXvNeYmQ8U_529i-_2OSbXM3Mr54ctmYsgoG58SjsYML1mtlgC2PJuB6WAzQdzU/w640-h328/petra+catalogue+04+bruce+haliday+black+and+white.jpg" width="640" /></a><i><span style="text-align: left;">Above: Much of Petra’s output was in simple shapes and
utilitarian dinnerware, cups and saucers and mugs, but there was also a market
for more spectacular creations like this black and white range. </span><span style="text-align: left;">Promotional photo, courtesy Bruce Haliday</span></i></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">At its height the factory employed 25 people, including ten
decorators.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Petra required hard work
and discipline from her staff: ‘I always told them, you don’t have to be
artistic. You have to be punctual, you have to be tidy, you have to be fast,
you have to be a good learner.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One
decorator pushed the boundaries, more interested in developing new patterns
than fulfilling production quotas. One day when Petra had to go out, she gave
the wayward young woman yet another pep talk. ‘I said to her, don’t play
around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You have got your list, you have
got to finish what’s on the list.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
Petra returned the decorator had once again not finished her list - but on this
particular day she developed the Pacific pattern - a top seller for years.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR_0ra5Z-oW-QP0ffMk0ynqz3wU9oO2GYaF1RjWq5AchNYLmprztcQYmfn5PWVgafpqMmZO5L8intWOsmm64Ws26OiqevpK9Ndh6fsJ1aeyjRAQyU-4qKtZcE7N8U_HAOUZw9SeblFut0/s1338/Petra+Pacific.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="582" data-original-width="1338" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR_0ra5Z-oW-QP0ffMk0ynqz3wU9oO2GYaF1RjWq5AchNYLmprztcQYmfn5PWVgafpqMmZO5L8intWOsmm64Ws26OiqevpK9Ndh6fsJ1aeyjRAQyU-4qKtZcE7N8U_HAOUZw9SeblFut0/w640-h278/Petra+Pacific.jpg" width="640" /></a><i><span style="text-align: left;">Above: Pacific was one of Petra’s most popular patterns. The tallest
vase is 30 cm.</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><span style="text-align: left;">Note the new teapot
shape, far right. Promotional photo courtesy Petra Donath</span></i></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Coffee was coming into vogue in the 1990s and Petra Ceramics
did endless runs of mugs and latte cups and saucers, for both domestic and
commercial use.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The most popular patterns
were Pacific, Lemon, Blue Flora and Molle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Petra kept her hand-painted patterns light and loose, always including a
lick or two of black for definition. New designs were always a collaboration
with the painters who could execute her ideas.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj85LNC-dq1zuJqnXsTLlojcyuiYtl5Z9M9yPv6VGPl9Kwvqtnjk8pVfTmwWJ2EajUZsGou7TYW3QkJKoNoXrNrduM6RHWoKGlXHqFKexQ5Vrs2rSVylWmKr2fieHhcCorNdMVVgttSD0/s2983/Petra+mugs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="867" data-original-width="2983" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj85LNC-dq1zuJqnXsTLlojcyuiYtl5Z9M9yPv6VGPl9Kwvqtnjk8pVfTmwWJ2EajUZsGou7TYW3QkJKoNoXrNrduM6RHWoKGlXHqFKexQ5Vrs2rSVylWmKr2fieHhcCorNdMVVgttSD0/w640-h186/Petra+mugs.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><i>Above: Petra Ceramics mugs in popular patterns. From left: Pacific, Lemon, Hanna, Blue Flora, Molle</i>.<o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Like other potteries, Petra Ceramics gained a lot of
business from the commercial sector. Cafes – including Palmers’ Garden Centres
and McDonald’s – wanted tea and coffee cups and plates. There was a steady
demand for pure white ware for hotels, and big platters and bowls for caterers,
supermarket food cabinets and delicatessens. There were even two sizes of juice
containers for hotel dining rooms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some
catering ware went to hotels in the Pacific Islands. Occasionally Petra made
one-off patterns for a particular client.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Among others, there is a 60-year commemorative platter for the homeware
chain Levene’s, and a tomato-themed serving dish for Dolmio – a giveaway for
people who collected and sent in a certain number of spaghetti sauce labels.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbWuX7EkJABoV1RPwtA8WrhgrxAeK3r7HL9-NdUN3zjYUVYu1BxEtzqAISJ_kzPKUv2ILsDGfIv3fLv_1CRpUIDwM2_1U5-ttdKxDFFk9U18IcBwCEue9gcw7YX-29geDl9-ls8ZuamRM/s834/Petra+urn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="760" data-original-width="834" height="365" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbWuX7EkJABoV1RPwtA8WrhgrxAeK3r7HL9-NdUN3zjYUVYu1BxEtzqAISJ_kzPKUv2ILsDGfIv3fLv_1CRpUIDwM2_1U5-ttdKxDFFk9U18IcBwCEue9gcw7YX-29geDl9-ls8ZuamRM/w400-h365/Petra+urn.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Above: a hotel juice container. Height 25 cm. This holds
four litres. There was also a wider eight-litre version.</i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLw9t3rS2FY-qNeksuZBldwXen2On2qF_8WBydze8OpC2PLm9mHT8Q7fxS9Dl4UkhKABC4RDPadK5ugTyEeOpdtc6B4S5g-eMRXINmafnANCAQnCe_1LcXHk0AwwU-qJczO44jLnXXBsM/s613/Petra+morocco.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="605" data-original-width="613" height="632" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLw9t3rS2FY-qNeksuZBldwXen2On2qF_8WBydze8OpC2PLm9mHT8Q7fxS9Dl4UkhKABC4RDPadK5ugTyEeOpdtc6B4S5g-eMRXINmafnANCAQnCe_1LcXHk0AwwU-qJczO44jLnXXBsM/w640-h632/Petra+morocco.jpg" width="640" /></a><i><span style="text-align: left;">Above:</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><span style="text-align: left;">Petra Ceramics
Morocco pattern. Promotional photograph courtesy Petra Donath.</span></i></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">By the mid-1990s it was obvious there was room for more
expansion, but Petra and Murray decided not to get any bigger – they felt they
would be working even harder, for very little extra return.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Then in a few short years everything fell apart. In
1999-2000, Petra had a serious illness and while she was recovering, the
business was sold as a going concern and Petra and Murray moved to the South
Island.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They retained a lifelong love of
ceramics, but never returned to the industry.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The new owner kept many of Petra’s patterns but there were
also a few new styles such as the striking black and white Zebra design and new
pieces including cat figurines, kidney-shaped bowls and ‘garden ball’
decorations .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sadly though, the business
had lost its driving force. Petra went back only once, and the factory was
obviously in decline. Most of the staff had been put off work and there was an
air of dirt and decay about the place.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In 2007 Petra Ceramics went into receivership and the
factory closed permanently. <o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEElW4fchZct5Rrfya4QpEyqOaCfPU8Oz5EA3c75SEGg_u2DpB42XMgIbl_p-RML6N8RRnQpA81J4t2IUnE8wxt8jxQg_q0Mt9ijcsutrIEuIcoDRTEZ0I88B-5m_CcZlOc5MiGpqgdrI/s1031/Petra+catalogue+2003+02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1031" data-original-width="723" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEElW4fchZct5Rrfya4QpEyqOaCfPU8Oz5EA3c75SEGg_u2DpB42XMgIbl_p-RML6N8RRnQpA81J4t2IUnE8wxt8jxQg_q0Mt9ijcsutrIEuIcoDRTEZ0I88B-5m_CcZlOc5MiGpqgdrI/w448-h640/Petra+catalogue+2003+02.jpg" width="448" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYO9_2LUHA8zeTsFrKQcEVx5MNxXhpKj_8FnPCJIFDWXT2iKWgdLkofTXjws0QdrolkWCahSmrlOMvfJvX3YzdQWLOGPmA5gKQ9LQFktFRz0LRz_qhj9C8ku6jU1eyhx0VZ1IWSN2M9X0/s1031/Petra+catalogue+c+2003+01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1031" data-original-width="723" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYO9_2LUHA8zeTsFrKQcEVx5MNxXhpKj_8FnPCJIFDWXT2iKWgdLkofTXjws0QdrolkWCahSmrlOMvfJvX3YzdQWLOGPmA5gKQ9LQFktFRz0LRz_qhj9C8ku6jU1eyhx0VZ1IWSN2M9X0/w448-h640/Petra+catalogue+c+2003+01.jpg" width="448" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Above: From a Petra Ceramics 2003 brochure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Courtesy Lesley Madgwick</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Petra Ceramics is generally very easy to identify. Almost
all pieces are backstamped.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first,
from the late 1980s, carries the Petra Potz mark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are many variations on the Petra
Ceramics theme, all used in the 1990s and into the early 2000s.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFoFuo17SMEvt8BjwSNvEaLYGoeZ8jDycz1yQtFqnFQ-XK1Wata1KkgYzp_CKg_njEvVK1qnKJkpuu0SZo2dLjpXORtLdQeXP8EzLPN-Z14rKR-beU0ZLhDQJO1KPyhjhkBaDgQmJbbL8/s555/Petra+mark+01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="536" data-original-width="555" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFoFuo17SMEvt8BjwSNvEaLYGoeZ8jDycz1yQtFqnFQ-XK1Wata1KkgYzp_CKg_njEvVK1qnKJkpuu0SZo2dLjpXORtLdQeXP8EzLPN-Z14rKR-beU0ZLhDQJO1KPyhjhkBaDgQmJbbL8/s320/Petra+mark+01.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwIMfa_Vg72t3lbYGdqwOdoCcpEPesOXWeOKFinlbWSKqfZaIyISZEheRQfGgZ5sg6uKfVoJ4xTrqT_nsKYkfC_oOmV7ia0YUQSoc-8fJM1X2xk54nXzl3yxICPrGNmlgWwEqAOxy6Gh0/s490/Petra+mark+02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="458" data-original-width="490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwIMfa_Vg72t3lbYGdqwOdoCcpEPesOXWeOKFinlbWSKqfZaIyISZEheRQfGgZ5sg6uKfVoJ4xTrqT_nsKYkfC_oOmV7ia0YUQSoc-8fJM1X2xk54nXzl3yxICPrGNmlgWwEqAOxy6Gh0/s320/Petra+mark+02.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi82TObBYKu7_swW0dU0X8l6vw18lrF7pJNXQOTquPMxtpPocaZJ2FRWqpD98ZTKELzqLD7biHzU6IaeMRODPA6Xxh4w85uqBSzWmmL5dkW5Sw8jtEh6-62t6GCxfNpZkI3MyW7mhKMmps/s620/Petra+mark+03.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="316" data-original-width="620" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi82TObBYKu7_swW0dU0X8l6vw18lrF7pJNXQOTquPMxtpPocaZJ2FRWqpD98ZTKELzqLD7biHzU6IaeMRODPA6Xxh4w85uqBSzWmmL5dkW5Sw8jtEh6-62t6GCxfNpZkI3MyW7mhKMmps/s320/Petra+mark+03.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnRNzzWXp16vr8DHdjiAIyuUsa0NKqCdG97_FJVICQBth_33jzMzH0IuxGp_3ALA20xrIHEfMVE5jpsiCFq4vheY4KeDkQHsjuPFCWewNIhoQ2nP0lSMRTFrqr_Hz6VXsC3ws9ln_kq0E/s613/Petra+mark+04.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="435" data-original-width="613" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnRNzzWXp16vr8DHdjiAIyuUsa0NKqCdG97_FJVICQBth_33jzMzH0IuxGp_3ALA20xrIHEfMVE5jpsiCFq4vheY4KeDkQHsjuPFCWewNIhoQ2nP0lSMRTFrqr_Hz6VXsC3ws9ln_kq0E/s320/Petra+mark+04.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUARmQZAxoLhZ1w9IuCoo68ynZamVFLcTUa60VjAz4xjyxukAb8T8Y6ynnLJMSDq1BnVzvk16K7-uCVCOIO__GRecptJabjgeTq8kni5rtMbccZV7mYnBIH5j_Kbxt1L9evxGlHJVOpf4/s787/Petra+mark+05.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="324" data-original-width="787" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUARmQZAxoLhZ1w9IuCoo68ynZamVFLcTUa60VjAz4xjyxukAb8T8Y6ynnLJMSDq1BnVzvk16K7-uCVCOIO__GRecptJabjgeTq8kni5rtMbccZV7mYnBIH5j_Kbxt1L9evxGlHJVOpf4/s320/Petra+mark+05.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdp-bBBPDEmH5KUlVfIOsfutwaMlgKhz7lrOMcHJMUbNe0Iev6PiQFAZkge2n5UI6j70_7O-TwkMRfQunalXr3xLJUZ8eNbqxI8glLMNP1jf9ShKpbYCO7wOmKCJ_EKAmEXTYOy4CyMe8/s518/Petra+mark+08.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="334" data-original-width="518" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdp-bBBPDEmH5KUlVfIOsfutwaMlgKhz7lrOMcHJMUbNe0Iev6PiQFAZkge2n5UI6j70_7O-TwkMRfQunalXr3xLJUZ8eNbqxI8glLMNP1jf9ShKpbYCO7wOmKCJ_EKAmEXTYOy4CyMe8/s320/Petra+mark+08.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal">Petra also occasionally used stick-on labels. 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Petra is uncertain why it includes words in the German language. <br /> <o:p></o:p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho_j_gtcwd0qT92IZYWNNXik0oZx0ZHVVOfhBr3zLhbF8P9cSbGrldwWv7d5BizlP4ycdijtuG8BenEO1u7YEjKEvZuFc2GOK8LLSe-1xgFxVVl3XwHnJOMoAqJCO0jj7Dnn7yn5vFAW4/s766/Petra+jug+duck+german+label+label+pic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="545" data-original-width="766" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho_j_gtcwd0qT92IZYWNNXik0oZx0ZHVVOfhBr3zLhbF8P9cSbGrldwWv7d5BizlP4ycdijtuG8BenEO1u7YEjKEvZuFc2GOK8LLSe-1xgFxVVl3XwHnJOMoAqJCO0jj7Dnn7yn5vFAW4/s320/Petra+jug+duck+german+label+label+pic.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYuscw4kggNfRs9eRhvHgPv5rPdyTYIMqemz6uZMVE-8LSBa2StvW5H9DceXa01-boQhNgEYDOdrYnQ_TGRxdluj4m4wPZQRpcoWjSMfFRf5ivWAt2WRhlV4z4tZAqS-ayXrMDLdqwN1U/s596/Petra+jug+duck+german+label.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="596" data-original-width="531" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYuscw4kggNfRs9eRhvHgPv5rPdyTYIMqemz6uZMVE-8LSBa2StvW5H9DceXa01-boQhNgEYDOdrYnQ_TGRxdluj4m4wPZQRpcoWjSMfFRf5ivWAt2WRhlV4z4tZAqS-ayXrMDLdqwN1U/w356-h400/Petra+jug+duck+german+label.jpg" width="356" /></a></div><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal">Below: this mark appears on a vase made after Petra had sold
the business.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Used between 2000 and 2007</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNW4WxyZwCDzn11ZE9P_-2ZmixTsrfDxhsS1LSK-LQYO9PEQpTGEKewudgxuwUeWtTpVSH_Sbka-wkUj5ou4yMCVUyCVRaB_JyRSDY1m3A0G53GXN7SGDxFDvp8hle-d34wpNcTwlu2YU/s634/Petra+mark+06.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="311" data-original-width="634" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNW4WxyZwCDzn11ZE9P_-2ZmixTsrfDxhsS1LSK-LQYO9PEQpTGEKewudgxuwUeWtTpVSH_Sbka-wkUj5ou4yMCVUyCVRaB_JyRSDY1m3A0G53GXN7SGDxFDvp8hle-d34wpNcTwlu2YU/s320/Petra+mark+06.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>The information for this post came from an initial interview I recorded with Petra Donath in February 2016, along with several subsequent conversations. Unless otherwise noted photos are mine, of pieces from my personal collection. <div><br /></div><div>END <br />
<o:p></o:p><p></p><br /><p></p></div>Val Monkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11564133844683942529noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2880978462637000167.post-25627584818419415102020-09-21T13:05:00.000+12:002020-09-21T13:05:36.916+12:00Christine Harris - the early days <div>Christine Harris was one of the first New Zealanders to make colourful, casual slipcast household pottery. This post tells how she began as a one-person operation, selling her work at the Auckland markets. My next instalment will tell the story of Studio Ceramics, where her designs were made on a commercial scale. </div>
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<i><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Above: Christine Harris. Note the spectacular work displayed behind her. </span></i><div><i><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">From the New Zealand Herald 2 June 1988</span></i><br />
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her small daughter Carly. After a successful venture into stone sculpture,<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Christine returned to ceramics, this time
making and hand-painting slipcast ware.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span>Along with a handful of other pioneer designers she injected a jolt of
colour and style into a market previously dominated by earthy brown studio
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her craft. It was made in about 1983. Christine used variations on the </span>'CH' mark throughout her working life. </span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><i><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Valerie Monk collection</span></span></i></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">By about 1983 Christine was selling boldly coloured platters, mugs,
bowls and vases at Auckland’s busy Victoria Park Market. Later, an assistant was hired to sell at the Oriental Markets. Although
her work was still clearly experimental, Christine could barely keep up with
demand.<span style="margin: 0px;"> Some ware was cast at the workshop</span>, but like many contemporaries Christine also bought ready-made blanks from
Western Potters Supplies and decorated them for sale.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Even at this early stage
the focus was on designs which were quick to decorate and instantly
appealing.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Buyers queued for her work,
especially for mugs with black and white stripes or bright blobs of cobalt
blue.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Christine also experimented with
teapots and cups and saucers. At first her decorations were hand-painted onto
greenware then coated in clear glaze and fired. Later, decorated ware was
bisque fired then clear glazed and fired again.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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more adventurous with colour and shape. Based in a series of small studios
around central Auckland, including D’Art Studios and City Workshops, she worked
alongside Bob Steiner and other up-and-coming artists.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>At one stage the Limbs dance company rehearsed upstairs.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>With advice from colleagues and from staff at Western Potters Supplies, Christine learned to shape, decorate and
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</span>She made quirky vases, candlesticks, ‘happy pots’ and the occasional
sculpture in bright colours and metallic glazes.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Black and white stripes and spots were
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colourful work was stocked by upmarket design stores, where her towering Memphis-style vases sold for hundreds of dollars. A few pieces found their
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were accepted for the 1985 Fletcher Brownbuilt ceramics awards<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>but were unplaced. They were marred by firing
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1980s Christine Harris was working very long hours at her one-person operation.
Then came the 1987 stock market crash. Many collectors lost their funds and could no longer pay
for large art vases.<span style="margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Christine quickly realised that her economic future lay in mass-producing smaller, less expensive pieces, especially the very popular Floral pattern dinnerware. <span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Friends encouraged Christine to find a way to set up a factory - and that story will be told in my next post. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"></span><br /></div>Val Monkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11564133844683942529noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2880978462637000167.post-7494163920074368412020-04-23T11:47:00.000+12:002020-05-10T15:16:21.315+12:00Royal Oak Pottery 1946 - 2014<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZHa2V4hzpj2FM8O9HlYfViy4F9nUZpLNoccwj5mUyjWXDOMtjvinKLHXG-b-jMUuOBlRfSTJHAR1QokfK52n5T1eSgoLUUcl9xU_eaqKPD7xwHHRJEeGDgPxQMhd5E8DFKHtiz3_9tPs/s1600/Royal+Oak+grouping.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="492" data-original-width="952" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZHa2V4hzpj2FM8O9HlYfViy4F9nUZpLNoccwj5mUyjWXDOMtjvinKLHXG-b-jMUuOBlRfSTJHAR1QokfK52n5T1eSgoLUUcl9xU_eaqKPD7xwHHRJEeGDgPxQMhd5E8DFKHtiz3_9tPs/s640/Royal+Oak+grouping.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
When we consider Royal Oak Pottery, this is what usually springs to mind. Quite heavy 'rustic' kitchenware, often with stylised daisy flowers. But the full story is much richer and more interesting. Hence, this is the longest post I have ever written. I have tried to trim it down but believe me this is the best I can do.<br />
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Through most of the 1940s Owen Salisbury’s Auckland factory turned
out thousands of hand-painted Salisbury Ware vases. (<a href="http://valputaruru.blogspot.com/2020/04/salisbury-ware-1940-1946-and-note-about.html">See previous post</a>). Then in 1945 the war ended and imported
English ware came back on the market. New Zealanders lost interest in homegrown
Salisbury Ware and the factory closed in 1946. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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Undaunted, Owen Salisbury set up a workshop in his family garage
in the Auckland suburb of Royal Oak. He hand-painted little cactus planter pots from Spartan
Products, and placed them on wooden Mexican-style wall shelves. Soon he was
able to give up his paid employment and concentrate on the business.<br />
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<i>Above: the first Royal Oak ware. Owen Salisbury made wooden shelves and added cactus pots - and a few little Santas - by Spartan</i><br />
<i>Photo courtesy Edward Salisbury</i><br />
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As his business grew, Owen Salisbury bought and decorated more bisque ware blanks from Norm Stevens
and Dave Stewart at Spartan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then Spartan closed, and for a time Owen
bought his blanks from Norm Stevens, now a struggling sole operator. From 1952
he was supplied by Cameron and Dorothy Brown at Sherwood Potteries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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<i>Above: Butterfly wall vase decorated at Royal
Oak.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Blank from Sherwood Potteries. 1950s</span></i><br />
<i>Louise de Varga photograph, from Julie Cardon collection. From memory about 15 cm height. </i><br />
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Owen Salisbury’s new business took off and he went back to Crown
Lynn for a better supply of blanks. Owen suggested many of
the shapes that Crown Lynn made for him. As well as castware, he bought vases
hand-thrown by Ernest Shufflebotham at Crown Lynn and sprayed them with bands
of paint, mainly in pastel colours. Output quickly expanded and he hired Ted
Heart from Crown Lynn to help with decoration.<br />
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<i>Above: wall vase in the shape of a hat, decorated by Ted Heart for
Royal Oak.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>16 cm end to end. The maker of this shape is still under discussion - either Crown Lynn or Sherwood.</i><br />
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Owen Salisbury was always looking for new ways to expand the
business. By the early 1950s he had commissioned metal mesh (lacemetal) ware
and wrought iron ware including plant stands and planters, telephone
tables, fire screens, magazine holders, umbrella stands and wall-mounted
shelves in various configurations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Much
of the metalwork held vases, pots and planters made by Crown Lynn or Sherwood
Pottery and decorated at Royal Oak.<br />
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<i>Above: Royal Oak lacemetal planter. The green leaves were cut out
of old food tins then painted. Vase probably by Sherwood. 21 cm end to end.</i><br />
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<i>Above: Royal Oak metalware wall decorations and ornaments. Pottery blanks by Crown Lynn and (probably) Sherwood Pottery. Image from a Royal Oak catalogue, courtesy Edward Salisbury. </i><br />
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In 1956, Owen’s son Edward Salisbury started work at his
father’s factory – just before the entire factory burned down. The
business moved to a nearby building in Manukau Road and Edward’s first job was
to clean up the remains of the burned factory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Only a few days later Crown Lynn also had a huge factory fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Despite these setbacks production continued,
with hand-decorated vases and ornaments selling as fast as they could be made. <br />
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Through the years the business had its ups and downs, and
staff were hired accordingly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Key staff
at various times included Ted Heart and Darryl Hargreaves (decorators) and
modeller Peter Cooke. <br />
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By the end of the 1950s, the Royal Oak metalware catalogue had expanded
still further, and stand-alone vases and ornaments also found a ready market. In
1956 the family established a warehouse in New Plymouth, run by Owen’s brother
Raymond.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Output was limited only by inconsistent
supplies of Crown Lynn blanks and by import restrictions on metal mesh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Royal Oak sold metal ware until about the
mid-1960s. In the late 1960s Royal Oak made Formica coffee tables and tea
wagons and at times also sold imported crystal, bone china, porcelain, lamps
and dinner ware.<br />
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<i>Above: Royal Oak planters. These pots were first made by Crown Lynn
in 1964 </i><br />
<i>Photograph courtesy Edward Salisbury. I don't have one of these to measure but I estimate that the tallest would be about 80 cm in height. </i><br />
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<i>Above: This ornamental shell, decorated at Royal Oak, was first
made by Crown Lynn in 1961. Length 27 cm. </i><br />
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From 1961-1964, Royal Oak was still buying blanks from Crown
Lynn, including candle stick ends, a butterfly, a
crocus vase and the familiar shell above.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Royal Oak also sold finished Crown Lynn ware
including whiteware vases and swans. At Crown Lynn, Daniel Steenstra made and decorated a range
of planter pots, vases and kitchen jars for Royal Oak.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some were unmarked; others had a Royal Oak
stamp on the base. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some Crown Lynn plates
were also stamped Royal Oak and presumably retailed through the Salisbury
family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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<i>Above: a planter made and decorated by Daniel Steenstra at Crown Lynn and sold at Royal Oak. Photograph courtesy A. A-S.. Height estimated 19 cm. </i><br />
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<i>Above: this Crown Lynn colourglaze dessert bowl carries a Royal Oak
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<b>Royal Oak kitchenware</b><br />
In the early 1960s Owen Salisbury began making pottery from
scratch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He imported a kiln from England
and began mixing his own clay body. Young Edward dug the first clay out of a
hillside in Waiwera and later supplies came from Auckland’s north-western
motorway construction site and the big deposits near Matauri Bay in Northland. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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At first Royal Oak made mainly ornaments, but by the
mid-1960s the family was making thousands of pieces of practical kitchenware.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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Salisbury called his new range Colonial Ware, but
in about 1967 it was renamed Winfred May Pottery – after a Mrs Winifred May
Cullen who was hired to market Royal Oak ware to retailers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The range included coffee sets, mugs, storage
jars, salt pigs and oil bottles. Later there were casseroles, ramekins and
jugs.<br />
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<i>Above: Royal Oak’s Winifred May ware. </i><br />
<i>Photograph from a catalogue, courtesy Edward Salisbury</i><br />
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<i>Above: Mugs were a consistent best seller for Royal Oak. The bottom layer are the popular 'P30' shape. It is estimated that through the years about 250,000 of this shape alone were sold. </i><br />
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Sadly, Mrs Cullen soon fell ill and later died, leaving
Royal Oak without a marketer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1969
Owen Salisbury again joined forces with Arthur Martin. Trading as Martex,
Martin sold Royal Oak kitchenware under the brand name SAMA, an amalgamation of
the names Salisbury and Martin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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<i>Above: Royal Oak salt and pepper with the Sama stick-on label. Height 9 cm. </i><br />
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By 1974 Royal Oak was selling direct to retail shops. New
glaze colours included white, nut brown, orange, dark blue and mottled brown,
almost always with shiny dark brown around the top.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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<i>Above: Royal Oak ware from
the early 1970s. </i><br />
<i>Catalogue images, courtesy Edward Salisbury </i><br />
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In 1976 Owen’s two sons Edward and Stewart moved production
to a much bigger factory in Henderson. By this stage Owen was content to work
on glaze development and his own small-scale projects and it was some years
before he too made the move from his workshop at Manukau Road to the Henderson factory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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Edward Salisbury and the rest of the team were great
do-it-yourselfers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They tackled everything
from kiln repairs to modelling, mould making and slipcasting. Clay body and
glazes were made by the family using recipes created by Owen Salisbury and
tested in their own laboratory. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All
Royal Oak ware was slipcast, so they kept away from circular items like plates
which Crown Lynn could make much faster on their mechanised jiggers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most
Royal Oak has a flat dry base with no discernible foot ring. However sometimes
Edward carved a foot into the base of the plaster mould.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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In 1978 Owen taught Royal Oak’s first artist, Lynley Trail,
to decorate ‘Daisy Ware’ with simple stylised flowers in brown, blue and later
pink. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By 1979 there were over 20 staff
turning out 1000 storage jars a month, along with teapots, coffee sets, mugs,
salt pigs, egg cups, oil bottles, jugs, ramekins and casseroles - and even a
hanging garlic holder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The simply
decorated ware was quick to make, with only one trip through the kiln. At
first, lettering – eg ‘sugar’ – was hand-brushed. Later, transfers were used.<br />
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<i>Above: Royal Oak Daisy pattern teapot. Cane handles (and corks) were
bought in bulk and fitted at the Royal Oak factory. </i><br />
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<i>Above: Royal Oak Daisy Ware. Brown sold better than these blue and pink colourways. Blue jar at rear, 12 cm excluding cork. Wet/dry spoon holders 8 cm. </i><br />
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In about 1979 Stewart Salisbury left the family business and
moved to Australia. After a couple of years he came back to New Zealand and
established Stewart Pottery in Henderson.<br />
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1979 was the year of peak production. Edward Salisbury
estimates that at least 250,000 of the basic ‘P30’ shape coffee mugs were made
over the years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the early 1980s,
Tasti Products ordered 10,000 jars for ginger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Some Royal Oak pottery was exported to Australia and the Pacific
Islands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the 1970s the Royal Oak shop
also sold Temuka ware, but Edward recalls that it was inclined to chip and
customers complained.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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For several years Royal Oak focused on the popular hand-painted
Daisy Ware, but in 1982 they began using German-made transfers – brown and orange ‘Autumn’ for the South Island and ‘Rustic Rose’ for the North
Island.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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<i>Above:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Royal Oak
kitchen containers with the ‘Autumn’ transfer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> (To my regret I did not buy this lineup. Photo taken in the shop, hence price stickers) Height estimated 14 cm.</span></i><br />
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<i>Above:Kitchen jug with the ‘Rustic Rose’ transfer. Height (from memory) 14 cm. </i><br />
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In 1 March 1985 the family patriarch Owen Salisbury died,
and his workshop in Henderson was emptied out and closed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By this stage demand had begun to ebb and
parts of the big Henderson factory were progressively shut down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It finally closed in 1996.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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For the next few years, Royal Oak pottery was made in a
workshop at Edward Salisbury’s home in Green Bay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was a big order for mugs for Apex Valves,
with recipients’ names hand-lettered onto each mug.<br />
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In the year 2000 Edward moved to the small Waikato town of
Paeroa, and after that he continued making Royal Oak on a smaller scale, selling mainly at craft markets.Without the burden of running a factory he was able to create more shapes, for example kiwi, pukeko, lizard and john dory
fish figurines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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In 2014 Edward Salisbury retired and production of Royal Oak
pottery ceased completely. <br />
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<b>Owen Salisbury </b><br />
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<i>Above: Owen Salisbury in 1962</i><br />
<i>Photo courtesy Edward Salisbury</i> <br />
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Until Royal Oak Pottery moved to Henderson in 1976, Owen
Salisbury was very much involved in day-to-day production.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After the move he stayed at his workshop in Manukau
Road and had time to experiment with new glazes, shapes and decorations – and
to go fishing. <br />
From this time, Owen’s work can still be identified as Royal
Oak but many pieces have his own style. He made and decorated slipcast coffee
mugs, wine goblets, decanters, vases and the like. Some carried the Royal Oak
sticker, and a few pieces were signed on the base with Owen’s mark. He created his
own ‘Lava Glaze’ from scoria dug from under his home, and marked the product
with specially printed labels.<br />
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There has been a suggestion that the thick speckly glaze as seen on the salt and pepper below is Lava Glaze, but the family is very clear that the term was used only by Owen for a few of his products.<br />
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<i>Above: this salt and pepper is in White/Brown, not Lava Glaze. Height 4.5 cm. </i><span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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Owen Salisbury’s work was sold through his on-site shop as
well as the Royal Oak Pottery outlet store.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For some time, his entire output was bought by a Queen Street gift
shop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the lease on the Royal Oak
building expired, Owen joined the rest of the team in Henderson. Until his final illness in 1985, he had his own
workshop close to the main factory. Owen's son
Edward estimates that there were 300 buckets of various glaze mixes in the
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<i>Above: Floral mug by Owen Salisbury. He also made vases and other ware in this pattern</i><br />
<i>Photo courtesy Edward Salisbury</i> <br />
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<i>Above: 'Lava Glaze' vase by Owen Salisbury. </i><br />
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<i>Above: Wine container by Owen Salisbury. There was also a 'Rum' version and possibly others. Height 18 cm. </i><br />
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<b>Identifying Royal Oak </b><br />
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Much of Royal Oak Pottery's output is not marked. Most carried a sticker when it left the factory, but of course once an item has been used a few times the sticker disappears.<br />
Because all the shapes, moulds and glazes and clay body were made in-house, Royal Oak is quite distinctive. Its heavy country-style look struck a chord with New Zealanders who were ready to move on from the precision and symmetry of Crown Lynn.<br />
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<u>Below: Royal Oak stickers and stamps </u><br />
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Early Royal Oak sticker. Used (I believe) on the hand-painted ware made C 1946-1960s</div>
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Royal Oak Pottery sticker. Used from 1975 to 2014</div>
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Winifred May Pottery. C 1967-1968</div>
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Royal Oak Pottery stamp. Occasionally found on Royal Oak kitchenware<br />
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With the compliments of Royal Oak Pottery Used by Crown Lynn when making glazed ware for Royal Oak </div>
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Royal Oak Potteries stamp. Used by Crown Lynn when making glazed ware for Royal Oak</div>
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<u>Below: Owen Salisbury's marks and stickers from late 1970s - early 1980s </u></div>
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Above: Owen Salisbury's impressed mark.</div>
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With the compliments of Owen Salisbury. Royal Oak Pottery<br />
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ROYAL OAK POTTERY TIMELINE<br />
1946 – Owen Salisbury established Royal Oak Pottery in a
workshop at his home at 714 Mt Albert Road. First ceramic blanks supplied by
Spartan Potteries.<br />
1947 – As Royal Oak Pottery expanded, blanks were supplied
by Norm Stevens (ex Spartan), Cameron Brown (Sherwood Pottery) and then Ambrico/Crown
Lynn. By now Royal Oak was also selling various metal scroll ware items – plant
pot stands etc.<br />
1956 – Royal Oak Pottery was registered as a company. A
branch warehouse was set up in New Plymouth and managed by Raymond Salisbury
(Owen’s brother).<br />
1956 - Edward Salisbury started working full-time for the
family business. In December 1956 the factory was destroyed by fire. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
Early 1957 – A new factory was established at 697 Manukau
Road, Royal Oak. <br />
1959-1964 - Crown Lynn was making some moulds for Royal Oak<br />
1960 – The first kiln arrived from England and Owen Salisbury
began making his own ware. Modeller Peter Cooke moved from Crown Lynn to Royal
Oak.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
1967 – Winifred May kitchenware was introduced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Metal ware was discontinued. <br />
From C1969 –Arthur Martin sold the entire output as ‘SAMA by
Martex’. <br />
C1973 – Owen’s younger son Stewart joined the family company.<br />
By 1974 Royal Oak kitchenware was marketed direct to retailers.
It came in six colours - white, nut, orange, blue, mottled, and earth. <br />
1976 – Royal Oak Pottery moved to 28 Henderson Valley Road.
Owen Salisbury stayed in Royal Oak <br />
1978 – The hand-painted daisy pattern was introduced in
brown and blue (and later pink).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some
pottery exported to Australia and the Pacific Islands. <br />
1979/1980 – Stewart Salisbury left the family business and
later established Stewart Pottery.<br />
1983 – Autumn and Rustic Rose transfers introduced. 10,000
small ginger jars made for Tasti Products. <br />
1985 – Owen Salisbury died.<br />
1998 – The Henderson factory closed. Royal Oak pottery continued
at Edward Salisbury’s home in Green Bay. <br />
2000 – Edward Salisbury moved to Paeroa, still making Royal
Oak pottery sold mainly at craft fairs. <br />
2014 – Edward Salisbury retired and production of Royal Oak
pottery ceased<br />
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SOURCES<br />
My heartfelt thanks to Edward Salisbury, son of Owen and
Cecily Salisbury, for the large amounts of information he gave me. This came
from notes and records complied by Edward, plus an interview I recorded with
him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Further valuable information is
from Ev Williams and the New Zealand Pottery Forum website and from the book
<i>New Zealand Pottery, Commercial and Collectable</i> by Gail Henry.<br />
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ENDS<br />
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Val Monkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11564133844683942529noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2880978462637000167.post-42357041101453692352020-04-11T15:23:00.000+12:002020-04-26T15:26:12.931+12:00Salisbury Ware 1940-1946 (and a note about Partridge/Harwyn)<br />
Owen Salisbury and his descendants made ceramics in Auckland
for over 75 years, first as Salisbury Ware and later as Royal Oak Pottery. <br />
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This post is about Salisbury Ware. I will tackle Royal Oak next.<br />
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When Salisbury first came to my notice – say 15 years ago –
there was plenty of the distinctive hand-painted ware around. Now, of course,
it’s not so easy to find.
But keep looking. They are there.
You might just have to pay a bit more than we did back in the day.<br />
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The Salisbury factory in Khyber Pass Road in Newmarket in
Auckland operated for only about six years. It opened in 1940 and closed in
1946. That’s over 70 years ago. <br />
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The story begins in 1939 when Owen Salisbury began
decorating hand-thrown vases made by West Auckland potter Jovan Rancich and his young apprentice Wally Silva. Owen and his friend Arthur Martin thought
there would be a market for this type of decorated ware, and by 1940 they had set up a
factory and were producing on a commercial scale. <br />
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They bought Jovan Rancich/Silva’s fired but undecorated vases (bisque ware)
and sprayed them with cellulose lacquer. Sometimes commercial transfers were
stuck on over the top of the paint. At the time, the same style of pottery was
imported from England, but Salisbury and Martin found a ready market for their
New Zealand version.<br />
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<i>Above: Salisbury Ware vases, hand thrown at Jovan Rancich's pottery, almost certainly by Wally Silva. They were decorated with cellulose lacquer and the two in the centre have had stick-on
transfers added. The bowl on the left contains a separate ‘frog’ with holes to
accommodate flower stems. Heights range from 6.5 cm to 13 cm.</i><br />
<i>Below: This vase from a private collection has a more successful transfer. </i><br />
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Jovan Rancich died suddenly in 1942, leaving Salisbury and
Martin scrambling to find another supplier. Rancich's widow Vera and Wally Silva continued to run the pottery for about two more years, but Salisbury also bought increasing amounts of blank pots from Tom Clark from Ambrico (later known
as Crown Lynn). At
that stage Clark was still developing his glaze mixes and techniques. Selling
unglazed blanks relieved him of the uncertain process of decoration.<br />
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The products from the Khyber Pass Road factory, almost
exclusively vases, were marked with a stick-on paper label, most commonly
‘Salisbury Ware NZ’. Other labels from
this period included NZ Mattone Ware and NZ Sunset Ware. <br />
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This was the heyday of Salisbury Ware. A team of artists decorated the vases with
hand-brushed flowers and garden scenes, or spray-painted using stencils. During the 1939-1945 Second World War, non-essential imports came to a halt and New Zealand was forced to rely on
locally made products. Salisbury Ware helped fill that gap and the factory
prospered, even while Owen served in the Pacific Islands between 1942 and 1944. <br />
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<i>Above: Salisbury Ware vases, slipcast by Ambrico and hand-decorated
with cellulose lacquer. </i><i>Height 11 cm. </i><br />
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Post-war, New Zealand again imported English ware and Owen
Salisbury’s Khyber Pass Road factory faltered, finally closing in 1946. This was the end of the Salisbury Ware
brand. In its place Owen Salisbury
established Royal Oak Pottery, but that story will have to wait for my next
post. </div>
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<b><u>Glazes vs paint</u></b><br />
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The two vases below are both made by Crown Lynn, both shape
number 13. Height 14 cm. So why do these vases look so different? The dark brownish one was finished at Crown Lynn. It is covered in a hard shiny waterproof glaze. The pale blue vase was decorated in matt paint at the Salisbury factory. Both would have been made in the early to mid 1940s.<br />
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<i>Below: the vases above as seen from the base. Left, the glazed vase showing the early Ambrico mark. Right, at various times different prices have been pencilled onto the base of the hand-painted vase</i>.</div>
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Sometimes Salisbury Ware pieces are in a
poor state with badly flaking paint. The vase below will give you an idea with its white flaky patches around the rim – I have seen them much worse, but I don’t buy them. </div>
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The difference in durability is because glaze is fired in a
kiln to a high temperature and becomes glass-like, while the cellulose paint is
simply dried. Paint is thus more vulnerable to wear and tear, especially if it
gets wet. However paint has one big
advantage – it is less complicated to apply.
Whether sprayed or brushed on, it doesn’t need that extra trip through
the kiln that glaze requires. Whatever their condition, these vases are historic treasures. When you think that they were made
70-80 years ago, we should be impressed that they have survived at all. <br />
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<b><u>EDIT: Jovan Rancich and Wally Silva</u></b><br />
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After I published this post it was brought to my attention that the early Salisbury
pots which I at first attributed to Jovan Rancich are very similar to marked
examples by Wally Silva. I agree and I have edited this post accordingly.<br />
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Wally Silva joined Rancich as an apprentice (aged 11 or 12)
in 1937/1938. Thus, we can be sure that young Wally made at least some of the
hand-thrown pots which were sold as blanks to Owen Salisbury and others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jovan
Rancich died quite suddenly in 1942 and Wally Silva and Rancich's widow Vera
kept the pottery going until 1944, when it was destroyed by fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is most likely that Silva still supplied some
pots to the Salisbury factory after Rancich died, but I believe that from about
this time, Owen Salisbury and Arthur Martin were also buying an increasing
number of blanks from Ambrico. <br />
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Owen’s son Edward Salisbury can find nothing in the
Salisbury family records that suggests a commercial arrangement with Wally
Silva, but unfortunately neither Owen Salisbury or Arthur Martin, or Wally
Silva himself, are alive to tell us the full story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A document written by Owen Salisbury for
researcher Gail Henry describes Rancich's sudden death as 'a set back to us.'
Salisbury then describes the approach to Tom Clark of Ambrico, who began making
their blanks. When we look at Salisbury Ware, Ambrico shapes outnumber
Rancich/Silva shapes by a very large margin. <br />
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The Silva family also recalls being told that Wally Silva
sold once-fired blanks after he set up his own pottery in 1945. It is highly likely
that he supplied Partridge/Harwyn, and he may also have sold some to the Salisbury
Ware factory, which closed in 1946.<br />
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<i>My thanks to Lance Silva, Edward Salisbury, Brian Ronson and
Ev Williams for helping sort out this puzzle. </i><br />
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<b><u>Harwyn/Partridge Ware</u></b><br />
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During the war years, Owen Salisbury was not the only
decorator of unglazed blanks. The Partridge family of Harwyn Potteries used
similar techniques to decorate vases from Rancich/Silva, Ambrico and Glen Afton
Pottery. The painting on Harwyn ware is
generally lush and detailed, mainly of flowers.
Harwyn also hand-painted flowers on small glazed Ambrico vases. <br />
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<i>Above: two vases decorated by Partridge/Harwyn. Left, hand-thrown blank from Jovan Rancich/Wally Silva, height 7.5 cm. Right, slipcast blank from Crown Lynn, 18 cm. </i><br />
<i>Below: Crown Lynn vase hand-painted over glaze by Partridge/Harwyn. Height 8cm.</i><br />
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SALISBURY WARE TIMELINE<br />
1939 – At the age of 28, Owen Salisbury began decorating
hand-thrown ware made by Jovan Rancich/Wally Silva. <br />
1940 – Owen opened a factory at Khyber Pass Road in
partnership with Arthur Martin. They began selling ware with stick-on
‘Salisbury Ware’ labels. <br />
1942 – Jovan Rancich died. His widow Vera and Wally Silva kept the Rancich pottery going, but it is believed that most blanks were then supplied by Ambrico
(which later became Crown Lynn). <br />
1942-1944 – Owen Salisbury served overseas on war duty in
the Pacific Islands. The factory continued operating in his absence. <br />
1946 – The Khyber Pass Rd factory closed as imports from
England were restored after the war ended. This was the end of the Salisbury
Ware brand. <br />
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<b>Identifying Salisbury Ware</b><br />
Many pieces of Salisbury Ware are not marked, because the original stickers have been removed. The early Rancich/Silva vases are almost invariably marked with numbers impressed separately into the base - eg in the example below.<br />
Later, Salisbury Ware was marked with stickers - most commonly Salisbury Ware, but also Mattone and Sunsent Ware.<br />
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Above: stamped numerals typical of Salisbury Ware made by Rancich/Silva<br />
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Hand Made Salisbury NZ sticker</div>
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NZ Sunset Ware sticker</div>
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NZ Mattone Ware sticker<br />
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SOURCES<br />
My heartfelt thanks to Edward Salisbury, son of Owen and Cecily Salisbury, for the large amounts of information he gave me. This came from notes and records complied by Edward, plus an interview I recorded with him. Further information is from Ev Williams and the <a href="http://www.newzealandpottery.net/">New Zealand Pottery Forum</a> website, from Lance Silva, son of Wally Silva, and from the book <i>New Zealand Pottery, Commercial and Collectable</i> by Gail Henry.<br />
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ENDS<br />
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Val Monkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11564133844683942529noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2880978462637000167.post-44549507457160002712019-12-03T14:32:00.000+13:002019-12-11T12:25:11.172+13:00Stage Artware 1990s - a joy to behold! <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg8Nv_c1TC0RRd-rL7VKNBOhWuGtJ8TuKVzSs1jNnrRIvNJ7lZdr7Lw91btRD7ufihh2Xn2zeH27hDQdMGPZindmEFIFhCvcmL42yBRx4P50VX35rRhuZsvpQc6Udn9GoNhwszKuHyDSs/s1600/Stage+artware+shelf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="419" data-original-width="1010" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg8Nv_c1TC0RRd-rL7VKNBOhWuGtJ8TuKVzSs1jNnrRIvNJ7lZdr7Lw91btRD7ufihh2Xn2zeH27hDQdMGPZindmEFIFhCvcmL42yBRx4P50VX35rRhuZsvpQc6Udn9GoNhwszKuHyDSs/s1600/Stage+artware+shelf.jpg" /></a><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Beverley White bought Stage Artware in 1993 and sold four years later in 1997. She </span>knew nothing about ceramics and at first there was failure after failure. Pottery is a highly technical business
and fortunately Tom Hodgson and others from Western Potters Supplies helped her to learn better
techniques. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Soon she had the business back on track and earning money. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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Everything from Stage Artware is hand-made.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Each piece is cast in a mould</span>, then fettled and
painted, then fired in a kiln. Lastly it is dipped in clear glaze and fired
again.<br />
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<i>Above: My sister Gill's vase in the 'Carlita' pattern - lovely with irises.</i><br />
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Stage Artware made mugs, coffee sets, teapots, bowls, cups
and saucers and dinnerware.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lamp bases and
vases were also consistent sellers. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Beverley
learned every step of the process, from slipcasting to painting, glazing,
firing, packing, marketing and distribution.<br />
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<i>'Nouveau' Teapot. <span style="font-size: x-small;">Beverley White collection </span></i></div>
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She sold to retailers throughout New Zealand and recalls
that Auckland was a smaller market, while country towns like Invercargill
took larger orders. She hired a sales rep to look after the marketing and
distribution side of the business. The previous owner had sold some ware in Australia, and for
a while Beverley continued to sell through an agent in Sydney. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
Beverley re-designed most of the existing shapes when she
first took over, and many of the less popular patterns were discontinued unless
someone specifically asked for them. Probably the best-known pattern is Fruit, which was developed by one of her artists, Sally Ann Hingston, and refined over the years. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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<i>Vase in Fruit pattern. <span style="font-size: x-small;">Valerie Monk collection </span></i></div>
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Sunflower (below) was another very popular pattern, also developed
by Stage Artware artist Sally Ann Hingston.<br />
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<i>'Sunflower' vase. <span style="font-size: x-small;">Valerie Monk collection </span></i></div>
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Beverley’s hand-painted patterns were quite detailed, with a number of different colours. Her artists had to work quickly and accurately. The
painters had a certain amount of leeway but they still needed consistency with colour and pattern so that buyers got what they expected. Each
piece was placed on a wheel to be painted – a flat platform which could be spun around. This allowed easy access without handling wet colours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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Most of the painters were art students who worked
part-time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Beverley </span>found that trained
artists were better at the job – they generally had a lighter more fluid style,
which suited customer tastes of the 1990s.<br />
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The Stage Artware from Beverley White's time is stamped.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her predecessors used stick-on labels but
Beverley changed to stamping because that is a quicker and more enduring
method.<br />
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At the peak Stage Artware had 11 staff, including a full-time
slipcaster and a fettler (who tidied up any imperfections when the pieces came
out of the moulds.) The shop was at 84 Karangahape Road in Auckland, with the factory out the back. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Beverley did most of
the final clear-glazing herself. Moulds and new shapes were made by Hemara Hemara, a prolific
modeller and mould maker in Auckland for decades.<br />
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There was only one major hiccup over shapes –
someone else began making the distinctive ‘deco mug’ and it took a legal
challenge to put a stop to that.<br />
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<i>Deco mugs. <span style="font-size: x-small;">Valerie Monk collection</span> </i><br />
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Like most commercial potteries, Beverley did special
commissions for various businesses who would give their loyal customers a mug
or other small gift at Christmas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That
was quite a lucrative source of income. She also did a few one-off commissions for places like the
Sheraton Hotel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Artist Vaune Mason made
some sample vases and platters – the hotel took the little platters but the
vases proved too expensive to make.<br />
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<i>Sample vase for Sheraton Hotel (never went into production)<span style="font-size: x-small;">. Beverley White collection. </span></i></div>
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Beverley also experimented with painting fabric to make
tablecloths and napkins to tone with her ceramics, but that idea never really
took off.<br />
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One of the more eccentric products was a little pig. It was decorative only, not designed as a money-box.<br />
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Below, A Stage Artware lamp base with the original lampshade. This
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Beverley White sold Stage Artware after only four years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She says that she loved the pottery business
but after four full-on years she was more than ready to try something a bit
less demanding. A couple of years later she moved to Hawkes Bay and opened a
Bed and Breakfast – complete with Stage Artware dinnerware and a lovely garden bird bath featuring a Stage Artware platter. <br />
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The owners before Beverley were Maureen and Dennis O’Brien. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately Beverley can’t remember who she sold
to, and so far I have been unable to find anyone who can shed any light on that
question. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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If you want to know more about Stage Artware, go to the New Zealand Pottery website and look at the beautiful <a href="http://www.newzealandpottery.net/gallery/Stage-Artware/Stage-Artware-cat_c96.htm">gallery of thumbnail pics</a>.<br />
Also - <a href="http://www.newzealandpottery.net/search?search_keywords=stage">more information here</a>, again on the NZ Pottery website. These are individual comments and posts from various collectors and researchers.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In July 2019, Titian collectors Louise and Danny de Varga invited us to lunch with Cameron and Beverley Brown, whose family established Titian Potteries and later Orzel. It was a lovely afternoon, a pleasure to see Cameron and Beverley again, and to talk to other collectors and researchers. Special thanks to Louise for organising this event! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">This
blog is a random dump of notes that I scribbled down as Cameron and Beverley
talked. It is based only on the pieces which were discussed at the lunch, and of course it only tells bits and pieces of the Titian/Orzel story. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">There is more info on the <a href="http://www.newzealandpottery.net/">NZ Pottery website</a> and on <a href="http://titianpottery.blogspot.com/">this blog.</a> My<a href="http://valputaruru.blogspot.com/2017/05/titian-orzel-and-crown-lynn-are-they.html"> previous pos</a>t is also useful. This is a Titian <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/551218351694946/">facebook group</a> run by Ev and Andrea. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Titian/Orzel</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b> timeline</b> </span></span></span><br />
<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">(</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">information from Gail Henry’s book New Zealand Pottery Commercial and
Collectable).</span></span></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cameron Brown Snr and his wife Dorothy established Sherwood
Potteries in the Waitakeres in about 1951.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1958 they moved to new premises in Henderson. Around this time the
pottery was re-named Titian Studio.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1966 the business moved again, this time
to larger premises at Takanini. The family sold shares to fund expansion. The shares were bought up by Crown Lynn Potteries
and by about 1968 Crown Lynn had taken over Titian Potteries. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Brown family remained at the Titian factory under the
control of Crown Lynn for a time, but then set up the beginnings of Orzel
Potteries in the family garage.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They then
left Crown Lynn/Titian and developed a busy and successful business of their
own, selling under the brands Orzel, Aquila and Adelaar.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">‘Young’ Cameron, who was at our lunch, grew up with the pottery, and
he and his wife Beverley took more responsibility as Cameron Snr and Dorothy
grew older. 'Young' Cameron and Beverley were the driving force behind Orzel. Today, they work with their son (also Cameron) making Kiwiana souvenir ware under the
name Sherwood. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sherwood/Titian
Potteries (1951-1968)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The photo above was given to me by Cameron and Beverley. It shows (front, from left) the three Brown brothers Cameron Snr, Neil Brown, Jack Brown. At rear are 'young' Cameron (right) and his cousin Viv. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cameron Brown Snr was born in NZ. During the war he served in the Polish merchant navy. After returning from the war he worked at Crown Lynn for a while. He got jobs there for his brothers Neil and Jack. After a time, Cameron left Crown Lynn to set up his own Sherwood Pottery. Neil was in charge of casting at
Crown Lynn, he knew about clay bodies and how to make slip for
slipcasting.<span style="margin: 0px;"> He too left to work </span>with Cameron Snr at Sherwood Potteries. Jack stayed at Crown Lynn until he
died in the early 1970s. He was responsible for the machinery that made cups
and saucers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When Cameron Snr began marking his work, he usually painted
a strip of colour on the base and scratched variations on the word Titian into it.<span style="margin: 0px;"> When </span>Vic Lawson took over mould making, his moulds
included shape numbers etc.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So the early
Titian ware is marked by a coloured smear, the later ware by numbers. Below is a typical mark from the early days of Titian Studio, almost certainly made by Cameron Brown Snr. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">T<span style="font-family: "calibri";">he girl figurine below was made by Cameron Brown Snr in the very early days of Sherwood/Titian Studios. <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo by Louise</span></i></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Below: <span style="font-family: "calibri";">Cameron Snr was very proud of this figurine as it is made from bone china. Camneron Snr worked very hard to develop a bone china clay body. If you put a lighted match inside this little figurine, it glows. </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: x-small;"><i>Photo by Louise</i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b>The polar
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this polar bear was one of a series of animals made for the Auckland Zoo, to be
sold in the zoo shop.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Cam’s brother
Chris also remembers an elephant and a hippo but Cam can only remember
the polar bear. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>A rare fish</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Kate and Dayle showed Cameron and Beverley their fish. The
Browns identified Cameron Snr’s writing on the base. This fish was part of the
Titian exhibition curated by Mary Morrison.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">It had its own protective box from that exhibition. </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSfn_0WpChvkyVI_a25XY9465QPup7Vy0RTwhtd-XYYn1IW_7b0yL9CsKL9WpdiS0vuFDfxKsgVjVQWIpvA-c7liVmGXD4Q0YkSkTuNTNu6FXSkhCNrllOZSjCx5B8D-gm7I52ZESXgf8/s1600/Fish+kate+dayle+pic+louise.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="349" data-original-width="388" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSfn_0WpChvkyVI_a25XY9465QPup7Vy0RTwhtd-XYYn1IW_7b0yL9CsKL9WpdiS0vuFDfxKsgVjVQWIpvA-c7liVmGXD4Q0YkSkTuNTNu6FXSkhCNrllOZSjCx5B8D-gm7I52ZESXgf8/s400/Fish+kate+dayle+pic+louise.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></span></div>
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Dayle item, Louise pic</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b>Palmerston North Souvenir plate.</b></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">This plate appeared in two versions. There is this black on white and also a white-on-black version which Cameron remembers much
better.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">For this black on white version, the image was drawn on the
raw clay by artist Teddy Rennie who worked for the Browns for a few years. Cameron said he
was sometimes allowed to draw the simple bits, eg the branches of the trees,
when he was a young boy. </span></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Teddy Rennie decorated
a lot of the Titian ware. He was an artist from England, where his job had
included drawing advertisements for fashion magazines. He was particularly skilled at depicting fur, eg fur coats. Teddy Rennie was a friend of Uncle Neil Brown’s. (Cameron
Snr’s brother).<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>‘Young’ Cameron was a
schoolboy when Teddy was working at Titian.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Teddy made the marble, woodgrain and feather finishes on the Titian
vases. The feather finish was made by applying a thick glaze which was
literally given texture with a feather.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>For
the marble glaze, Rennie had two colours on his brush and manipulated the brush
(which had a fine point) over the raw clay of the vase. He moved the brush
sideways, dabbed it etc to get the marble effect.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The same type of technique was used for woodgrain.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The original colour would be sprayed on then
the second colour applied with a soft brush. Rennie did not work for Titian for
long, maybe three years… He was quite close to retirement when he came to
Titian.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He had left by the time Titian
moved to Takanini but Cam doesn’t remember any dates. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Cam told me that Cam Snr originally developed
crackle glaze and feather glaze to cover blemishes. Far too many of his pots had pinholes in the glaze and other defects, which of course he could not
sell.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The thick textured glazes covered minor flaws.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The butterfly</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Around 1951/52, Titian made blanks for Owen Salisbury, who had a factory where they were painted to make Salisbury Ware.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">This butterfly would date from that
time.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">It is in very good condition.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">(<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Julie C brought this to the lunch</span></i>)</span></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></span></div>
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Pic by Louise. </i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Presley Ware black vase</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">A lot of black vases (and white) were made for
Flower Beauty as well. </span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b>The colourful dishes – and other copies </b></span></span></span><br />
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and Dorothy told me that someone bought these dishes in Hawaii and asked the
Browns to copy them, including the woodgrain effect on the back.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">There are several shapes in this series. Cam
told us that his family was asked to copy dozens of different
things, including the toby jug Dick
Whittington, the set of wall ducks, etc etc.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Wholesalers brought them examples and asked for copies.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Cam said his father had a rule that he would
copy anything from overseas, but not ware that was made in New Zealand. </span></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mary Baillie painted all the gold lines.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Dorothy (Cam’s mother) did hand-painting and
fettling.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She was not really interested
in spray painting.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>In the early days Cam
Snr used a garden sprayer to spray glazes. He then bought a small and not very
good compressor spray outfit.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>That broke
down at a time when they had no money to buy a replacement or pay for repairs.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>They replaced the broken part with a sixpence
coin, thereafter called ‘Mum’s lucky sixpence.’ </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When they
started, Cam Snr made all the models and moulds.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>After Vic Lawson arrived, Vic did the
modelling and moulds.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>When Vic left,
Hemara Hemara took that job. (I believe Hemara started when Orzel was being established). Hemara modelled the Ti Toki bottles and shaped
all the steins and mugs. He left in 1988.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Hemara’s son Paul Hemara also worked for Orzel, as did his brother
Stephen (for a short period). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This lovely vase came to me at the lunch. 1950s or 1960s? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Generally speaking, Titian ware is finely made and decorative, as was appropriate for the fashions of the time (1950s/1960s). Orzel, which had its heyday in the 1970s and 1980s, was far more 'handmade' in style, heavier and definitely utilitarian. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The beginning of Orzel</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After Crown Lynn took over the Titian
factory, the Brown family continued to work there.<span style="margin: 0px;"> Then </span>Paramount Trading gave the Browns a personal order
for 6000 mugs and they began making them in their garage at night and weekends.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Cam Snr built a kiln in the garage workshop.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>However Crown Lynn (at the Titian factory)
was also making product for Paramount and they didn’t like the fact that the
Browns were moonlighting. So Crown Lynn asked the Browns to leave the Crown
Lynn /Titian factory.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Orzel made thousands of the big Ti Toki bottles, but they also made a
run of little bottles which were given to First Class Air New Zealand
passengers on a flight to the UK. (I believe Cameron told me this was the inaugural Air NZ flight to the UK but I am not sure). Cameron told us about the time they had an urgent order for the large Ti Toki bottles, so they
rushed to get them all cast, fettled and glazed.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Cam Snr volunteered to watch the kiln that
night, and turn it off when it reached the required temperature. However he
went to sleep and the kiln was still going in the morning. It was far too hot and this is what the bottles looked like:<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Cam and Bev have kept these for many years.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Bottles, Cam and
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Orzel and Royal Oak made very similar kitchen
storage jars.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Some of the Royal Oak jars
had stick-on labels and once contained ginger and other foods. Cam and
Beverley told me that the jar below is Orzel.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>The Orzel jar has a longer neck and a more pronounced shoulder than the
Royal Oak jars.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Edward Salisbury from
Royal Oak has also told me about the difference between the two shoulders.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Cameron and Beverley identified the writing
on the base of this jar as Cameron Brown Snrs.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>(ignore the green sticker, it is my ID system). <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Settlers Collection terracotta kitchen containers were made by Orzel for chain stores including The Warehouse. The lettering
was stamped on using Indian ink.<span style="margin: 0px;">
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sure the lettering was level. </span></div>
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treasure. Bev and Cameron remembered Cam’s mother Dorothy offering to help
fettle these pots... and she kept breaking the spouts. (Sellotape is holding the
lid on this pic)</span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Orzel/Aquila made a number of large animal figurines. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Beverley decorated them with sprayed
glazes.</span><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> I understand that they were all </span>were made from Hobby Ceramics moulds
which were imported by Chris Brown as part of his Hobby Ceramics business. (Chris is 'young' Cameron's brother). The Aquila animals can be differentiated from Hobby pieces because they are made with heavier clay body and they are professionally
decorated. Beverley remembers
two owls, one sitting and one with wings outstretched.<span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </span><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </span>Other animals included a big
Alsatian dog and a big greyhound (thigh high), also an elephant with its trunk
up and pink mouth, a big polar bear, a tiger standing
on its four legs, and an eagle.<span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </span>(Note
that this list is probably incomplete, it is based on a very quick conversation
I had with Beverley). </span></span><br />
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1987 crash</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Orzel lost a lot of money after the 1987 financial crash.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Cam and Bev would follow up on overdue
accounts and often discover that the customer had gone out of business and their phone
was disconnected. After the crash, Orzel looked for a more reliable market. They made less general use kitchenware to be sold be retailers, and more large runs for private
firms.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>They made at least 60,000 little mustard pots for Colemans, and thousands upon
thousands of steins for various beer makers and sports clubs. </span><br />
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steins and other ware with company logos etc, transfers were made at the
factory and fired onto the ware.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Eg see
the beer steins below. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At Orzel, the cardboard boxes for packaging were
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Cameron and Beverley today</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Although the mass-production days of Orzel are now over, Cameron and Beverley and their son Cameron continue to make ceramics. Now they focus on souvenir ware and Kiwiana to be sold at markets around New Zealand. Here they are with a set of decorative wall plaques created by Beverley. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">‘Young’
Cameron Brown told me this story about his grandfather, who worked at
McSkimmings at Benhar in the South Island. The McSkimings family had substantial industrial
holdings in the Dunedin area.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Their
potteries included Abbotsford, Benhar,<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Green Island and others.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>At one
of the potteries a new kiln was built.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>It was designed to be run continuously, ie it needed to be stoked and
looked after day and night, seven days a week.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>However the McSkimings were very religious and would not allow their
staff to work on Sunday, ‘the Lord’s day.’<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>The kiln was never used.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ENDS</span>Val Monkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11564133844683942529noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2880978462637000167.post-31638192679020772002019-06-18T14:35:00.000+12:002019-06-18T14:38:56.202+12:00Beach Artware C1971-1977<u><span style="color: #000120; font-family: "calibri";"></span></u><br />
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Steenstra at Beach Artware in the mid-1970s. It is glazed in a glossy
lead-based orange, with a glaze known as grey star around the top. There is no
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Long before I found this piece, I had heard about orange
Beach Artware.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Peter and Eva Beach and
their successful pottery were a bit of a legend.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Through most of the 1970s they made thousands
of kitchen storage jars and salt pigs - and they hit a sweet spot in the market, especially with their orange. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sadly, Beach Artware lasted for less than ten years. Peter
had severe arthritis and died when he was only 42 years old. Not long after,
Eva sold the business.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A few years back, I tracked down Eva and her daughter Sharon Codlin. Ev Williams and I were fortunate to be able to interview them before Eva in her
turn passed away.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Above: Sharon Beach Codlin (left) and the late Eva Beach in 2015.
Eva is holding one of the original lamp bases made in the family garage in the
early 1970s.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> Photo V Monk.</span></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Aucklander Peter Beach began making kitchenware in his
Henderson garage in the very early 1970s. He had been working at Crown Lynn as
a glaze chemist until his arthritis forced him out of a job.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Peter recruited Daniel Steenstra, also from Crown Lynn, as
his potter and designer and they soon had an order for 1500 lamp bases for a
New Zealand chain store. There were two shapes, both modelled by Steenstra
then slipcast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Lamp bases - the first products from Beach Artware. The
shape on the left was later adapted to make imposing salt and pepper shakers.
Height 14 cm. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Peter Beach and Daniel Steenstra then began making hand-thrown
kitchen containers and within weeks they were so busy that Peter’s wife Eva and
their 15-year-old daughter Sharon both joined the new enterprise. Before long
they outgrew the garage and moved to a factory at 2A Rabone St in Henderson.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Peter Beach in the mid-1970s. <span style="font-size: xx-small;">Photo courtesy of the Beach
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At its peak Beach Artware operated from three adjoining
factory buildings with 13 staff. A team of production throwers made up to 600 hand-potted pieces a
day, plus hundreds more pots were slipcast in moulds.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>At a conservative estimate, 4000 pieces of Beach Artware were churned
out every week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This was a prosperous business. Peter and Eva built a stylish Spanish-style house complete
with a swimming pool on ten acres in Kaukapakapa.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">During those early days Peter told a local newspaper that
Eva was the business brain.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>‘She’s
co-director of the company, company secretary, sales director, kiln loader,
packer, delivery girl.’<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Eva ran the
office and did the accounts, as well as her hands-on roles. Peter was the
technical expert with overall management of the factory. He made most of the
moulds for the castware and, importantly, he made glazes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Beach orange-glazed ware was a runaway success. Peter had
begun experimenting with orange at Crown Lynn, but didn’t get it into
production until after he set up his own business. At first he made a rich matt
orange with uranium oxide, but then the Government banned uranium imports and
he changed to a glossy lead-based orange. The two glazes are quite easy to tell
apart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Above: the shiny lead-based glaze is on the left and the
matt uranium on the right.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Both orange glazes had toxic components and could not be
used where they could contaminate food or drink. It is unlikely that there are
any orange Beach mugs, and the kitchen jars are white inside.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After joining the family enterprise as a young girl, Sharon
thrived in the busy factory. She learned to throw pots as well as casting,
glazing, finishing, and loading kilns. She also inscribed the words on most
of the Beach Artware kitchen containers. Once she carefully inscribed “CORNFLOWER’
on a consignment of bright orange jars – her dad was not impressed. </span></div>
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family in Holland, was the star thrower.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Eva told us that he ‘worked like a machine’, turning out hundreds of
pieces all exactly the same with perfectly fitting lids. The lids were not made
specifically for each pot. They were laid randomly in gaps between pots in the
kiln, and lids and pots were married up after firing. </span></div>
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<i>Above: Vase and bowl decorated with chattering, though not necessarily by Steenstra as other Beach potters also learned the technique. Vase height 14cm, bowl 6cm.</i></div>
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<i>Above: Another feature of Steenstra’s work is the koru-shaped
swirl on the inside of pot lids. This detail helped prevent stress cracks. Again, other hand-throwers at Beach copied him. This detail is often found on hand-thrown Beach Artware, but is not specific to Beach. Below: the same whorl is very often found on the tops of Beach Artware salt pigs.</i> </div>
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vases and little salt pigs and pepper shakers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Above: <span style="font-family: "calibri";"><i>These pieces are all less than 10cm tall. From left: bud
vases, spice jar (front), an incense jar and a matching salt pig and
pepper pot. Some Beach Artware bud vases are cast, while others are hand-thrown.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As well as orange kitchenware, Beach made various shades of
brown and green, and a deep midnight blue with gold sparkles. There were
kitchen jars, spice jars, jugs, salt pigs, salt and peppers, mugs, coffee pots,
tankards, bird feeders, incense jars and the occasional jug, vase or bowl. Over
the years several clay bodies were used, including white, terracotta red and a
sand colour. Almost without exception the hand-thrown ware is has a flat, unglazed base. </span><br />
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hot in the kiln which caused the glaze to discolour. The salt pig in the centre
carries the rare ‘DS’ mark.</i></span><br />
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Most Beach ware is unmarked, though some slipcast pieces
have TRADITIONAL NZ or BEACH ARTWARE or BEACH NZ impressed into the base. The
‘Traditional’ name arose because the company’s full name was Beach Artware
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Above: These Traditional jars were very popular.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Most are clearly marked and were known in the
factory as ‘Trad jars’.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Please excuse
the red sticker – it is my catalogue number. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Peter and Eva sold to about 90 retail outlets throughout New
Zealand and made a few exports to Australia. An initial order from Melbourne
was for 1000 pots.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>They also had a shop
at the factory – sometimes buyers were lined up waiting when the kilns were opened.
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was a constant struggle to keep up with demand. Eva would
rush down to the factory early in the morning to empty the kilns.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Some pots were still so hot they burned the
cardboard boxes as she packed them.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This of course is risky. Pots should cool slowly in the kiln; a sudden drop in
temperature can make them crack.</span></div>
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came to shapes. To my knowledge, the Beach family relied on glaze and texture
for decoration; they never attempted to use commercial decals or hand-painting. The three pics below show Beach kitchen jars in various glazes. They are around 12-14 cm tall, including lids.</span></div>
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castware.</i></span></div>
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Daniel Steenstra mainly worked at production throwing - '100 pots a day' was his aim, but occasionally he made something special. He threw the bowl below then carved it, using skills he learned from his pottery family in Holland. The style is
called Snywerk and is very collectable.
He made this piece for the Beach family, who still treasure it today. From memory it is about 20 cm wide.<br />
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Many younger potters learned their craft from Daniel
Steenstra at Beach, among them Reg Matthews, Steve Fullmer and Peter Lenker - and of course Sharon Beach.
Terry Williams was the glazer for many years.
Less skilled jobs were often filled by travellers in search of
short-term work. Some were Hare Krishna devotees who took time off during the
day for their religious obligations. All in all, Beach Artware was a very
happy, busy place to work.<br />
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Throughout the early to mid- 1970s the business prospered,
but Peter‘s arthritis got steadily worse. He was in constant pain and becoming
increasingly crippled. Until the family bought an automatic car, he was
unable to drive without Sharon at his side to change gears.<br />
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At his workbench Peter made a special track for his seat to
roll along, and he even had his painfully gnarled fingers surgically shortened
so that he could continue to work.</div>
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In June 1977 Peter Beach died from complications related to
his arthritis. He was only 42. Everybody
I have spoken to says that despite his illness he remained cheerful, positive
and energetic to the last.</div>
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After Peter’s death, Eva was forced to sell Beach Artware to pay
Government death duties – a tax which was abolished very soon after. The
business was sold as a going concern, including all the shapes, moulds and
glazes. </div>
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The new owner Don McKenzie re-named the business Kiln Craft.
Then there was a legal challenge from Kiln Craft in England and the name was
changed again, this time to Clay Craft. </div>
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Unfortunately, McKenzie was new to ceramics and at first he
struggled to make consistent quality pieces. Many of the staff left during this
time. Sharon Beach and Reg Matthews
moved to Norm Parker at Parker Pottery, while Daniel Steenstra went to Stewart
Pottery, then moved again to help Eva’s stepbrother Peter Lowrie, who set up
his own pottery after Beach was sold. </div>
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Identifying Beach Artware</h4>
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Apart from the castware marked with TRADTIONAL or variations on BEACH, and the odd piece which carries the tiny DS mark for
Daniel Steenstra, Peter and Eva Beach did not mark their product, not even with
stickers.</div>
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So far as I am aware the orange pots – both matt and shiny -
are almost guaranteed to be Beach, but the greens and browns are less
straightforward.</div>
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There are strong similarities in both glaze and shape between Beach Artware and the Kiln
Craft ware made immediately after the takeover. For example this mug
shape was developed at Beach Artware, but you also see it marked as Kiln Craft
and Clay Craft.</div>
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are marked Beach Artware (although the mark is heavily smothered in glaze),
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made after Don McKenzie bought out Eva Beach. They are marked Kiln Craft (left) and Clay Craft. </span><br />
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<i>Above: The top jar was made at Beach Artware but you see
almost exactly the same glaze on the 'Trad’ jar which is clearly
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Above: These bowls were hand-thrown at Beach, but very similar shapes appear as castware with a Clay Craft mark. Width 11cm</span></i></div>
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potteries.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>When Beach staff moved on, they took their skills and their potting styles with them. Some
Parker Pottery is very similar to Beach; this is because Sharon Beach and
Reg Matthews moved to Parker after Eva sold up.</span></div>
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them both to Eva and Sharon, and after a great deal of deliberation they
decided that the honey jar was almost certainly Beach, while the marmalade container is Parker. The shapes are
pretty much identical but the glazes are different. Sharon and Eva did
not think that Norm Parker would have had access to the Beach family’s glaze
recipes.</span></div>
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There is also quite a bit of confusion between Beach Artware and Peter Lowrie's pottery. Peter Lowrie was Eva's stepbrother, and he worked for Peter Beach and Eva for a time. After Eva sold, Peter Lowrie set up his own
pottery and recruited Daniel Steenstra to work for him. Because Steenstra was
the senior thrower (and teacher) at Beach, there are strong similarities
between the shapes made at Beach and at Lowrie. To add to the confusion, some
Lowrie glazes are very similar to Beach, especially the brown.<br />
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there is one clear difference. On Beach
ware, letters were inscribed into the soft clay, while Peter Lowrie and Daniel
Steenstra used soft slip to create raised letters.<br />
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<a href="http://valputaruru.blogspot.com/2017/10/">This is a link </a>to a previous post on Peter Lowrie's pottery.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Above: <b>These jars are not Beach Artware! </b>They are typical of Peter Lowrie’s range. The shapes
are similar to Beach but the writing is raised rather than scratched
into the clay. </i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Unless otherwise noted the photos are taken by me from my personal collection</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "calibri";">My </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "calibri";">information came from the following sources: </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Eva Beach and Sharon Codlin, interview with Valerie Monk and Ev Williams, 20 June 2015</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Newspaper clipping, PETER BEACH: Potter. Unidentified publication, given to the author by Eva Beach</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Ernie Cooper email to Valerie Monk, 7 July 2015</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Steve Fullmer, telephone interview with Valerie Monk, 2 October 2014</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>New Zealand Pottery Forum website</i></span></div>
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Val Monkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11564133844683942529noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2880978462637000167.post-79075067947934652732019-06-08T14:43:00.001+12:002019-06-09T09:10:52.001+12:00In memory of Alan Topham<div style="margin: 0px;">
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">In early June 2019 we lost another Crown Lynn stalwart. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Alan Topham, who was Crown Lynn marketing manager for ten years then general
manager for another ten, has passed away after several years of failing health. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></div>
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<i>Alan Topham as general manager of Crown Lynn in 1978</i><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">When I was working on my first book Alan was one of my most
prolific and reliable sources. He was deeply knowledgeable and unfailingly helpful
in the face of my never-ending questions. Betty made me equally welcome - and
provided delicious lunches.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The first time I went to see Tom Clark, he told me this: ‘The
person who is still alive who would be able to give you the most help would be
Alan Topham. Alan was right on top of every goddam thing… he’s a walking
encyclopaedia, he occupied a lot of important positions in Crown Lynn. He made a
big contribution.’</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">And so I found it to be.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">For many decades Crown Lynn made and sold millions of pieces of
beautifully designed and technically excellent tableware and other homewares –
and Alan Topham made a huge contribution to this very successful
enterprise.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">When I read back through my interview transcripts today, I was struck by how much Alan actually knew, and how much time he spent passing on
that knowledge to me. He helped me understand the complexity of the ceramics
business – from mixing the clay body, to designing, shaping, firing,
decorating, warehousing and of course marketing. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>For much of his time at Crown Lynn it was Alan’s
responsibility to ensure that all the departments were at the top of their game,
every day. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Alan had a vivid turn of phrase, and during our many
conversations he was always positive. He never swore and never had a mean word
to say about anyone. When he talked about his colleagues at Crown Lynn one of
his favourite sayings was ‘you could bottle their blood’ – he loved and
respected the loyalty and hard work and energy and innovation that went with Crown Lynn,
especially in those early days in the 1960s and 1970s.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">This is what he told me about working at Crown Lynn:</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">‘I loved the job, it was so rewarding.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>From the viewpoint of taking a raw material
and you lived with it right through to the finished product. And when that
finished product comes out of the kiln you look at it… and you (feel great
pride). And the reward of employing 500, 600, 700 people, who were dependent on
your decisions.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">But we worked hard, very hard, I had to be at work every
morning at 8 o’clock; I lived on the North Shore, drove frantically over to New
Lynn. I wouldn’t get home till 6.30, 7 at night but I loved it. I think it was
very hard on Betty and the children. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Then I started travelling overseas a lot, but Tom had this
lovely philosophy - if you were getting three meals a day and a roof over your
head just ‘get on with it sonny’ – but he loved to have a bit of fun at the
same time. It was hard tough going, hard tough going but you always had an
executive dinner during the year and there was always time to have a few beers
and a bit of fun, a few laughs with the guys.’</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Alan joined Crown Lynn as sales manager in 1963.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>His family owned the crockery importing
business John Raine Ltd, so it was a real break from Topham tradition to move
to a New Zealand manufacturer which was in effect in opposition to the family
business.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He told me he copped a lot of
family flak for his change of direction, but he was resolute in wanting to work
at Crown Lynn with Tom Clark, who he liked and admired.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><i>From the Crown Lynn magazine October 1965 </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Alan immediately began investigating export prospects – at
this stage Crown Lynn was growing rapidly and Tom Clark was very keen to expand
into the huge consumer base of the United States and Canada. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Before
long Alan gained the title of marketing manager. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Then in 1969 he became general manager, replacing
Tom Clark who moved to Ceramic House to run Ceramco, Crown Lynn’s umbrella
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><i>From the Crown Lynn magazine December 1969</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">During Alan’s time at Crown Lynn, design was at the forefront,
with a focus on New Zealand themes.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The company
developed many new techniques and styles of decoration, and the annual Crown
Lynn design award achieved prominence. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>There
were hundreds of entries and the presentation night was a highlight of the
Wellington social calendar, with awards often given out by the Prime Minister
of the day. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Alan also oversaw the development and production of the
Dorothy Thorpe ball-handled designs, which were a huge innovation at the time
and are avidly collected today.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Another
high point was the development of the new brown ‘fish-hook’ design for the
tableware at Bellamy’s restaurant at Parliament in Wellington.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><i>From the Crown Lynn/Ceramco magazine summer 1977</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Alan’s marketing expertise was greatly valued. In 1975 he led
a government trade mission to the Arabian gulf states, and in the late 1970s he
was seconded by the government as an export year adviser.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>After that secondment ended, Alan moved to
Ceramco as corporate manager for export and public affairs. Colin Leitch
succeeded him as Crown Lynn general manager.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Alan finally left Crown Lynn and Ceramco in 1982, when he came
full circle and bought the family business John Raine Ltd. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I will always treasure the memories of the time I spent with
Alan and Betty, and I am grateful for the amount of time and expertise he gave
to me and to other researchers as we work to piece together the story of New Zealand’s
wonderful Crown Lynn. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Rest in Peace, Alan. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">And my condolences to his family and to his many friends</span></div>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: "calibri";"></span>Val Monkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11564133844683942529noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2880978462637000167.post-9698419468023556972019-05-19T16:44:00.001+12:002019-05-20T10:44:09.329+12:00A lovely (and important) Crown Lynn story<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I recently heard from Ernie Cooper, one of our Crown Lynn stalwarts from way back. </span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ernie sent me a story recalling <span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"> his last day at Crown Lynn before he
left for the UK to begin a four-year ceramics degree at Stoke-on-Trent.<span style="margin: 0px;"> He </span>was 21 years old at the time and this was 1965. </span></span></i><span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Ernie had begun work at Crown Lynn as a cadet two years before. </i></span></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #1f497d; display: inline !important; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><i></i><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><i>After gaining his degree, Ernie returned to Crown Lynn as laboratory supervisor. Harry Jones was the chief chemist. A couple of years later when Harry retired Ernie accepted the position of chief chemist. From 1973-1975 he was assistant factory manager (John Heap was the factory manager). He was then promoted to general manager of Gallard & Robinson, a technical ceramics division of Ceramco operating out of Sydney.</i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Ernie was also involved in Clay Craft and Terra Ceramics. He is now a business consultant living in Australia. </i></span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>This photo shows Ernie Cooper as a young Crown Lynn cadet. He is <span style="margin: 0px;">measuring the thickness of glaze
that has been sprayed onto a small plate. In the background you can see a kiln
car loaded with Bisque ware waiting to be unloaded. </span></b></span></i><br />
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here is Ernie Cooper's story of life at Crown Lynn in the 1960s. </span></span><br />
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WALK-THROUGH CROWN LYNN POTTERY 1965</span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I’ve
just run from home, 12 Admiral Beatty Ave, Mt Roskill, about 4 miles and it is
now 8 AM. I reached the roundabout at Wolverton Road, Portage Road & Totara<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Avenue (now Clark Street), as I head down Totara
Avenue passing Robinsons packaging I get my first sight of Crown Lynn just
beyond a vacant block on the left-hand side heading into New Lynn. It’s not
very impressive a plain brick building with very high windows, this is actually
the bisque warehouse but you wouldn’t know it from the outside. The first
entrance is an asphalt quadrangle with the seconds shop on the right-hand side,
the cafeteria on the left and the main entrance straight ahead. Alan Topham’s
office is on the right between the seconds shop and the main entrance. The main
feature of the entrance is a large Monstera deliciosa (fruit salad tree) I
never see any fruit, it’s always removed by the Crown Lynn workers before it
ripens. Later in the day you will find 1 or 2 white coated gentleman at the
main entrance waiting to guide groups through the more easily accessible parts
of the factory.</span></span></div>
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don’t use the main entrance. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I carry on
a little further down Totara Avenue to the second quadrangle which has the main
office on the right-hand side and a series of offices on the left, one of which
will to be my future office which I will share with John Heap. John would be
promoted to factory manager after Fred Hoffman left Crown Lynn to run the
Titian factory. But today I’m going to walk through the factory for the final
time, a familiar place as I have spent the last 2 years as a cadet working in
every department. My last day at Crown Lynn before heading off to
Stoke-on-Trent to start a 4 year degree at the North Staffs Technical College,
I will join fellow cadets Rod Humphrey and Rick Poynter who are already in
their second year in the UK.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I’m
heading out to the yard at the back of the factory near the old clay pit where
a lot of the raw materials are stored. There are bunkers for each of the
different clays ready to be processed, Glen Afton a plastic local clay, Mount Somers
from Christchurch a rock like China clay and a beautiful white clay from Matauri
Bay. In the open-sided shed there are bags of Feldspar from Scandinavia and
imported Talc. I well remember each time a feldspar shipment arrived, any spare
labour (which included cadets) was given the job of unloading semitrailers and
stacking the feldspar bags by hand 50 high in the sheds. This was hard and dusty
work and after 8 hours the reward was one large bottle of beer (DB Green) for
every slave. <span style="display: none; margin: 0px;">This was dusty </span>Each
of the raw materials needs to be processed in a unique way, the Mount Somers
clay for example has to be broken up with a sledgehammer prior to milling.
Although this is a backbreaking task it’s a popular job as sometimes you can
break open one of the rocks and find spectacular crystals of Iron Pyrites
(Fools Gold). In this backyard there is also the Plimortar department, an
additive to make mortar more pliable, which is run by Sam Lawson (who was later
father of the famous Lawson Quins) Sam later started his own mortar additive
business but that’s a story for some other time.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As
I head into the factory the noise is overwhelming - the tube mills with silica
pebbles and silica block lining roar as they rotate and grind the various clays
into ‘slip’, Blungers add to the mayhem as they beat the more easily broken
down clays to pulp. This is a 24 hour operation good job it’s well away from
the nearest habitation! The mills and blungers drop their loads into
underground wells where the mixing of the earthenware & porcelain bodies begin,
the slip is hot from the mills, making an uncomfortable humid atmosphere. Nearby
Mono pumps fill the filter presses at high pressure causing the occasional
blowout which just adds to the noisy humid confusion. I’m happy to move on to
the quieter Pug room where the filter cake is processed into extruded blocks
and left to age for a few days. The clay preparation department is Jeff Ball’s
domain, Jeff and his brother Gordon immigrated to New Zealand from
Stoke-on-Trent to join Crown Lynn (they were affectionately known as right and
left ball).</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Gordon
Ball looks after the jiggers and jollies, plate and cup making equipment, in
the main part of the factory. Smaller pug mills are used to extrude the clay
into smaller cylinders that are required for these machines. Jiggers and
jollies rely on 2 things - plaster of Paris moulds and a forming tool, jiggers
rotate a mould while the forming tool shapes the back and the foot whereas the
Jollies rotate the mould and the forming tool shapes the inside surface of
hollow ware.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The
mould making is run by Ray Machin (another of our Stoke imports) with the help
of Tam Mitchell the head modeller. There are several benches each laid out with
mould making equipment, the plaster of Paris is made in batches and carried by
hand back to the benches. Hemara Hemara is the gun mould maker and today he’s
going for the record of the most moulds made in one day. Everyone keeps out of
his way giving him the best access to the mixing equipment, there is a bonus
system operating so Hemara will earn good money today. It’s now 10 AM, the
hooter blows and everyone downs tools and picks up their darts. The mould room
has a very active social club based on money raised from the dartboard. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>There is the annual fishing trip to be paid
for, every time someone gets a Shanghai everybody else must contribute six
pence to the cause. Another hooter and it’s back to work.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bob
Farrington produces the forming tools for the jiggers of the jollies working
out of the engineers shop. The engineer shop has recently been extended - some
say to accommodate the mast of the yacht Buccaneer, Tom Clark’s latest
acquisition!</span></span></div>
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moulds with their cargo of ‘green ware’ are put into the mangle dryers which
carry them through a heating zone that dries them to a leather hard state ready
for fettling. And then on to the tunnel kill for the first firing. The green
ware is very fragile at this stage and it’s Tony Rakich’s job to oh so carefully
move the green ware from the fettlers to the drying area (you will notice the
smell, Tony also dries his garlic up here!) and then on to the area where it
will be loaded onto the kiln cars.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It’s
time to have a word with Dr Heine, he is in charge of the bottom laboratory
responsible for checking the earthenware porcelain body formulations are
correct and that the various production processes are working properly. Dr
Heine is a very qualified German ceramist and an important mentor for the
Crown Lynn cadets. I once asked Doc if I could ring him at home and give the
results of some firing tests I asked “what your home number Doc” his very
German pragmatic reply “I don’t know I never ring myself”.</span></span></div>
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tunnel kiln runs nearly the whole length of the factory from the clay
preparation towards the cafeteria. At the end of the kiln the bisque is
unloaded into wooden crates and trucked into the bisque warehouse. These manual
hand trucks were used everywhere at Crown Lynn for trucking crates, glaze drums
and anything else that needed to be moved they were also great fun to be ridden
like a scooter sometimes with disastrous consequences.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It’s
lunchtime now, another hooter, and we’re close to the cafeteria so I go for one
of Harry Cheeseman’s famous scones. There is a hierarchy of seating
arrangements usually the Stoke crowd congregate together discussing what’s
happening at home and the best way to make Oat Cakes (a Potteries breakfast
delicacy).</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wandering
through the bisque warehouse I remember being asked to sort through some old
bisque ware where I found some beer mugs, one I made especially with a black
glaze on the outside clear on the inside and added some transfers and gold
trim. This piece now resides at the Waitakere Library together with copies of
my notes recording my journey through the Crown Lynn cadetship. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At
the back of the bisque warehouse is the Murray Curvex decorating room with Jim
Byrne the manager, Jim was a colourful character famously banned from the New
Lynn RSA. Jim was playing snooker there one night and as he got down to play
his shot the lights were turned out for the ode - in a very loud voice Jim said
‘what silly bugger turned the f----ing lights out’ earning him an immediate
ban! The Murray Curvex room was the only air-conditioned part of the factory
the gelatine bombs and the ceramic inks used to transfer the geometric patterns
from the engraved plates to the bisque ware required a constant temperature.
The original Murray Curvex machine was imported from Stoke and the others were
made in the engineering shop using this original as the pattern - Kiwi
ingenuity!</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bisque
ware was glazed by spraying or dipping, the 8 to 10 glaze spraying booths ran
parallel with the main tunnel kiln and each station was manned by 2 people one
spraying the back and second spraying the front. After spraying, each piece was
placed into cranks ready for the gloss firing in the Prouty Kilns. The spray
booths were semiautomatic and required constant adjustment, the job of Henry
Sadler (and me when I was assigned to that department). This job I didn’t mind
at all as there was a particularly attractive lady who operated one of the
machines and that one always got my special attention!</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It’s
a short walk from the cup dipping line to the Prouty Kilns which operated 24
hours a day 7 days a week. You could look through the kiln and see the bright
red hot zone (~1000° C) in the middle section of the kiln. Occasionally there
would be a crash, the cranks would collapse causing a huge mess and stopping
the pushing mechanism. Clearing these crashes quickly was essential to keep the
production line moving and on more than one occasion I saw Fred Hoffman don a
fireproof asbestos suit and get pushed into the hot zone to grab some of the
red-hot rubble. Jim Nash was the only person Fred trusted to push him in and
pull him out of the Inferno. Under normal circumstances the fired ware from the
Prouty Kilns, which was still quite hot, was stacked into the ubiquitous wooden
crates awaiting the next process. </span></span></div>
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next process was again a rather noisy operation where the pin marks from the
firing supports were chipped off using tungsten tipped tools attached to a
special vibrating machine. Some of the busiest days I had during my cadetship
was keeping the buzzing machines supplied with glazed ware and trucking the
finished product into the glost warehouse. Harry Bird looked after this section,
a hard taskmaster.</span></span></div>
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Decorating room was a short walk from the chipping machines, originally the
decorating processes were overseen by John Cowdery but earlier in the year he
left and handed the managing of the decorating room to Maude Bowles. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The decorating room was staffed by some of the
most gorgeous girls in New Zealand but Maude ran a tight ship and anyone
trespassing in her area was given short shrift. This was always the most
desirable place to be for the end of year Christmas party! Ah! The end of year
Christmas parties (often referred to in more colourful language) sadly I’m not
going to see another one of those for a few years!</span></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
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last port of call is the glaze preparation area, for me this is probably the
most interesting of the production processes at Crown Lynn. The Department was
originally run by Ron Absalom but more and more he was relying on George Dabb
for the day-to-day operations. Little did I know that many years into the
future Ron would come to work at Terra Ceramics. I found the frit making and
the glaze colouring agents fascinating probably because of my interest in inorganic
chemistry and geology. The glaze preparation area was always wet underfoot so
the standard footwear was Wellington boots rolled down to mid-calf - not quite
the height of fashion. There is a glaze laboratory which tests glaze
formulations and formulates new glazes and decorating techniques and this is
where I first met Peter Beach who I remember as an enthusiastic ceramic
experimenter. Peter was often in at 5:30 AM to make sure he was the first to
see new test pieces out of the Prouty Kiln.</span></span></div>
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5 to 5 PM now and there is already a line at the clocking off machine, on the
dot of 5 there is a mass exodus and it’s time for me to jog home. I think back
about the many nights I had stayed back to 9 PM to supervise the ‘twilight’
shift the compensation for which was a Chinese meal in New Lynn. </span></span></div>
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all the hard work has been done, the tickets are booked and the goodbyes said;
I’ve had my pep talk from Tom Clark and walked away with a rack of his old
pipes, he has just given up smoking, again? So tomorrow I’ll fly out from Whenuapai
to Nandi then on to Honolulu and LA with a further stop in New York before
landing in London 3 days later. I’ve got a letter of introduction to Blyth
Colour Works in Stoke-on-Trent and the North Staffs Technical College is expecting
me so let the adventure begin.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am so grateful to Ernie for this beautiful and informative story. I am glad he took the time to write it all down for us to enjoy.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Frank Carpay's Crown Lynn Handwerk pieces are valuable and higly collectable. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">HERE IS SOMETHING HE DID NOT MAKE. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Below is one individual piece. It looks too rough to be made by Crown Lynn. </span></div>
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designed by Frank Carpay during the time he worked at Crown Lynn. The sets typically sell on TradeMe for over $100. If they were genuine Carpay, avid collectors would push up the bidding well above that figure. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But unfortunately buyers still pay far more than a mid-century condiment set is worth, in the belief that
they are getting a collectable piece of Crown Lynn. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Many experts have assessed this set and we are confident it is not Crown Lynn and not Carpay. Diligent searches of available shape catalogues have found nothing that suggests that this set is Crown Lynn. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sadly the myth is perpetuated – sellers ‘believe’ it is Carpay or ‘have been told’ it is
Carpay.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In contrast, here are some things that Frank Carpay did decorate.
<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>They are all clearly marked with
variations on his 'Handwerk’ signature and decorated with his distinctive loose
brush-strokes. This magnificent platter features in my Crown Lynn book. It was bought by Sir Tom Clark at an auction in 2004, and he was prepared to pay whatever it took to own it.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I was shown this vase by a long-standing Crown Lynn staff member who treasured it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Almost without exception, Frank Carpay's work is marked with his distinctive Handwerk motif. This bowl also carries the Crown Lynn 'star and tiki' mark which Gail Henry told us is from the late 1940s-early 1950s. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Frank (Francis Hubertis) Carpay emigrated to New Zealand
from Holland in February 1953, bringing with him the radical new design ideas
of European modernists including Picasso. He was snapped up by Crown Lynn director Tom
Clark, who hoped to move away from the traditional ‘rosebud’ china which was
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Working with Crown Lynn designer David Jenkin, Carpay began
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This is a publicity shot from the Auckland Star newspaper. Carpay on the left, David Jenkin on the right. Just look at that wonderful array of work behind them. </span></div>
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pots, but - to </span>my knowledge - at Crown Lynn he was a decorator only.<span style="margin: 0px;"> At first he </span>painted standard Crown Lynn shapes, then he began designing new shapes
for jugs, oil bottles and platters. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">This is what Tom Clark told me:<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>‘Carpay sketched the shapes and then we made
them. Some were hand-potted, Ernie Shufflebottom (Shufflebotham) made them.
Others were modelled and moulded.’</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">There was a great deal of publicity at the time. When Carpay
demonstrated his technique in public, he was often surrounded by an eager
audience. His work was greeted with acclaim by critics and art aficionados. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">However Carpay’s Handwerk series did not sell well.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;"> Most</span> New Zealanders still preferred conservative designs., and Carpay’s unsold work piled up. In 1956 he was asked to leave Crown Lynn. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">When I was interviewing Sir Tom Clark in 2004, he told me this
was one of his biggest regrets.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>‘Finally we had too
much stuff and I had to say Frank, I’m sorry Frank it’s not selling sufficient.
It is costing too much to keep you. Which broke my heart.</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">He deserved a better chance than we were able to give him.
He was way ahead of his time. Now we all think it is beautiful, wonderful but
at the time it was way ahead of their (public) taste. He was a very smart guy, he had
rubbed shoulders with Picasso, philosophised with him. ‘</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After he lost his job at Crown Lynn, Carpay went on to develop
a successful business designing and screen printing fabric for beach wear. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Here is my one and only Frank Carpay piece. It is the standard shape 735, and was originally one of a set of small serving dishes mounted on a tabletop 'ferris wheel' arrangement.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Lastly thanks to my fellow collectors and researchers who encouraged me to make a formal statement about the much-disputed cruet set. I would be so delighted if there is no reference to Carpay or Crown Lynn when the next one goes on sale. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sources:</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Douglas Lloyd Jenkins</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Frank Carpay</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">2002</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Louis Le Vailant </span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Considering Frank Carpay</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Art New Zealand NUMBER 109 / SUMMER 2003-04</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Interviews with Sir Tom Clark and others</span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Valerie Monk</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">2004</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">ENDS</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />Val Monkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11564133844683942529noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2880978462637000167.post-31309237882192510172018-07-24T12:10:00.000+12:002018-07-24T12:10:40.150+12:00Forest Ware 1982-1993<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Seven years ago, George and I worked in an apple packhouse with Tom and Colleen Walker. It was full-on, with little time for small talk. In May this year (2018) we stayed a night with them on our way round the South Island and Tom mentioned in passing that he and his late wife Beth had made and sold ceramics. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Turns out, Tom and Beth were the makers of Forest Ware, who we had been trying to track down for about five years. And he was right under my nose all along! </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>I recorded a couple of interviews with Tom and he generously allowed me to photopgraph his photographic catalogues - which gives us a record of just about everything that Forest Ware made. The photos below are only a small selection. </i></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Below are Forest Ware's tiny owls which Tom has kept for 25 years. Moulded by Tom and hand decorated by Beth. The largest is about 4 cm tall. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This is Tom's story. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In the early 1980s Tom and Beth Walker were living in their 12-metre
house bus in Hastings. Tom was working full-time, so Beth took up hobby ceramics. She discovered a real talent for decorating and soon she was
teaching two nights a week.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>One of Beth's vases won top prize at a huge ceramics show in Pennsylvania, which gave her the confidence to start decorating pieces at home. Tom began making
their own bisque blanks rather than buying them and soon they realised they were making a saleable
commodity. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">They added a small electric kiln to their new house
bus and moved to Hamilton. Hazelwood Ceramics Studio at Te
Rapa invited them to park in their yard and plug into their power.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Tom built a caravan that served as a workshop
and could be towed behind the bus.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The
owner of Hazelwood Ceramics showed Tom how to copy shapes, and he began making
moulds and pouring and fettling. A part-time bus driving job gave them a steady
income. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Some of their shapes were blanks from Ceramic Studios but
most were copies, with minor changes and different decoration to avoid
copyright issues.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Tom would buy a shape
he liked and make a mould from it. He only ran into trouble once. When he began
making figurines based on Murray Ball’s popular Footrot Flats cartoons, friends
warned him that Ball would prosecute so he stopped making them. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">In those early days they made mainly souvenir ware for tourist
shops in Rotorua, Taupo and Waitomo.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Small
native bird figurines and plates which Beth hand-painted with bird images were
big sellers, and cheery yellow glow-worms were popular at Waitomo
Caves. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Tom told me that withouth Beth's artistic skills they would not have been able to make Forest Ware. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Sadly, just as the business was really taking
off, Beth was hit by a car when she was crossing the road and spent months in
hospital and months more recovering. As her strength returned they bought a
property at Waihi where they lived in the bus and used a small building and the
caravan as workshop space. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After the move to Waihi business boomed. By now they were
making a wide range of ornaments as well as souvenir ware. Big sellers included
frogs in different poses, owls, dolphins, a pair of American Indian figurines, Ewoks
(from the Star Wars movies) and Garfield figurines.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Cookie jars sold for $32-$35.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Kittens and puppies were also popular. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In the souvenir range they sold thousands of
little dishes hand-painted with kowhai and other flowers. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>They experimented with dinnerware but ornaments
were easier to make and sold better. Decoration techniques included hand
painting, ceramic transfers, and spray painting.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Almost without exception a clear glaze was
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Below is a little souvenir vase which Tom still owns. It is signed LA Walker. Beth's full name was Lisbeth Ann.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Most of their product was sold at shows – the huge Auckland
Easter Show, and others in Wellington, New Plymouth, Whangarei, Hamilton and
Hastings.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>There were also smaller
A&P shows.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">For three weeks in the summer Tom and Beth parked up in the holiday township of Whangamata and sold from their bus. This would generate about $10,000, and for extra income they sometimes charged 50c each for people to look
inside their bus, still a novelty in the 1980s. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">To prepare for shows they packed all day, filling their
trailer with three tonnes of product. Then they would drive their 12-metre bus
and trailer overnight to the venue, stopping for a brief sleep along
the way.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The next day was spent setting
up, then they sold for the duration of the show, anything from two to 10 days. Then they would pack up and drive home
through the night.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Next day they would start preparing for the next show in
three weeks’ time. They worked long hours, often seven days a week. Tom would
start at 7 am and often he was in the workshop until 9.30 at night waiting for
a firing to finish so he could turn off the kiln.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The business did not make a fortune but it made a living for
Tom and Beth and they felt good about what they created.<span style="margin: 0px;"> As can be seen from the display pics above, they made an amazingly large range. Here are their little animal egg cups - which will be sure to add to the never-ending debate of who made what! </span></span></span><br />
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The wine cask below was modelled from scratch by Tom and hand decorated by Beth. Tom used two discs from a disc plough to form the original shape. A set like this was given as a prize in the TV show Sale of the Century.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Unfortunately by 1992-1993 Forest Ware was no longer
profitable and Tom and Beth closed it down. Cheap imported ware, which looked
fresh and new, edged them out of the market. About 300 Forest Ware moulds were
sold to other studios and the rest were given away or broken up and sent to the
local dump.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">In partnership with their son they soon began a new and very
successful business as balloon clowns. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">FOREST WARE MARKS – note that not all Forest Ware was marked </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hand Painted by LA (Beth) Walker. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><br />
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The usual stamped Forest Ware mark.<br />
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The mark below is on the base of a souvenir bird plate.<br />
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span>Val Monkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11564133844683942529noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2880978462637000167.post-73628882297519265822018-02-04T16:46:00.000+13:002018-07-24T10:04:45.925+12:00A serious mistake!<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have to confess to a mistake in my <i>Crown Lynn Collectors Handbook</i>. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">On page 136 there is a photo of a Pania of the Reef lamp base which is not Crown Lynn.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">EDITS - one of my readers - Karen has shed some light on the likely origins of the Pania I discuss below. In the catalogue of the Jim Durmmond auction of 22 April 2009, the very last listings are as follows. (The numbers on the left are the lot numbers for the auction.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1891 ‘Marble Art’ resin Pania of the reef lamp base $250 - $300<br />1892 ‘Marble Art’ cast black resin warrior lamp base $200 - $250<br />1893 ‘Marble Art’ cast ochre coloured ancestral figure lamp base $300 - $500<br />1894 ‘Marble Art’ cast black coloured poutokomanawa lamp base $300 - $500<br />END OF THE DrUMMOND SALE</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">And this is the link to the Jim Drummond catalogue, which Art + Object auction house has generously retained on line for us. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Recently I was sent a pic which shows one of these lamp bases with a little sticker "NZ REG. DESIGN 11549" stuck onto the green velvet base. Maybe a NZ design researcher will be able to track down a maker with that information. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">It may not even be ceramic, though as yet we have been unable to find out what it actually is made of. The owner of the one I photographed </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">lives some distance away and I have yet to check it personally.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So <u>why on earth</u> did I put it in the book? Believe me, I often ask myself that question.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Unfortunately I was shown it by someone who believed it was Crown Lynn, and I was so thrilled that I made a foolish assumption. The Three Faces of Eve lamp would have been a much more sensible example. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I must apologise to the Crown Lynn collectors who are seeking this piece for themselves - if you find one, by all means treasure it as a special piece of Kiwiana, but it is not Crown Lynn. And there are enough errors on Trademe without me adding to them! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That lamp is hopefully my most substantial error, but there are others. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Importantly, Crown Lynn designer Mark Cleverley told me of an error in my first book <i>Crown Lynn a New Zealand Icon</i>. On page 108, the Expo 70 Legend of Maui platter and the chopsticks fish hook were designed by Mark Cleverley not (as I was initially told) by David Jenkin. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now - a few words on how I research. My work is based on interviews with the actual people who made the ware. For example I recorded over 11 hours of conversations with Sir Tom Clark, the founder of Crown Lynn, and many more interviews with people who were involved with Crown Lynn in various ways. I transcribed those interviews and used them as the basis of my first book. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Where possible I found newspaper clippings, catalogues or other documents to clarify and support my writing. Through the 1960s and 1970s Crown Lynn published a series of newsletters which I was allowed to copy. I also seached out advertisements, which are an accurate record as they were prepared and placed by Crown Lynn. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However problems arise when you get two different newspaper articles which give differing stories and differing dates. Journalists often base their work on what they are told, and there are pitfalls in that approach. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My books were both edited at Penguin publishers, and my skillful and very thorough editors picked up inconsistencies in spelling and dates, for which I am forever grateful. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sometimes even the internal Crown Lynn publications were in error. Ernest Shuffle<u>botham</u>, creator of the lovely 'Hand Potted' whiteware, was always called Ernie Shuffle<u>bottom</u>, in every Crown Lynn newsletter and by all his workmates. It was only after he died that his family in England got in touch with New Zealand researchers and asked us to make a correction. This was too late for my first book, but not for my second. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They give more accurate dates than I was able to discover, plus a whole lot of new information. Much of this new info has been added to the wonderful<a href="http://www.newzealandpottery.net/"> New Zealand Pottery</a> website by Ev Williams and her fellow researchers. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I also owe a debt of gratitude to previous researchers, in particular Gail Lambert/Henry and Olive Hale. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here I am straying into studio pottery, but I have to write about my visit to the Anthony Morris exhibition at Morris and James in Matakana. I loved it! The exhibition is entirely focused on the art/craft of Anthony Morris, rather than on the wider Morris and James products. Morris and James is famous for its pots and platters in amazing bright bold colours and patterns, but this exhibition shows a different side to its co-founder. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let's start with his 'shades' - there is a whole wall of plaques decorated with human faces, created at a time when Morris was at a personal low point. This one caught my eye. They are not for sale. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A trip to France inspired large rustic platters, with the irregular decoration which is one of his hallmarks. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> These big fat pots are decorated with sgraffito on white slip. He told me that his aim at the time was to develop a slip that slowly flaked off the terracotta, giving his pots a gentle aged look. Much of his older work was hauled in from the garden for the exhibition - some still has a patina of moss and algae. These pots are big - from memory over a metre tall. In the background to the left you can see the wall of plaques he calls shades. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is a series of fat wonky African-style pots that really took my fancy. From memory 40-50 cm tall. I would happily have any one of them in my house - but again, these are history and not for sale. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Most impressive were these huge pots below, made of coiled clay and in the most amazing rich colours. They were made on a turntable with a helper slowly revolving the base to keep up with Ant as he built his pot higer and higher. The largest are at least as tall as I am. I could not manage a photo that does them justice - I hope you get the chance to have a look for yourself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anthony <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Morris had a severe stroke in 2004 at the age of 68. Since then he has returned to pottery with only his good side functioning - the stroke deprived him of the use of his dominant left hand. His work is now smaller and more 'wonky' than it was pre-stroke but he is creating some interestingly <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">glazed and decorated slabwork plaques and dishes. </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5u4ldiYFjU0dTYQNwxIFUDOCR8H91EzWq0cqo0Z1saZgnjz8GdcA2MJ-G20oL75kByk22gYhmoCLZzaVDf42cWLlG9GyqeIMsxELCvtszZYB-S1YXWoPSuE_MuGrukUqsvRE26oq4Ho0/s1600/021+after+stroke+cool+platter.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #0066cc; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-left: 16px; margin-right: 16px; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5u4ldiYFjU0dTYQNwxIFUDOCR8H91EzWq0cqo0Z1saZgnjz8GdcA2MJ-G20oL75kByk22gYhmoCLZzaVDf42cWLlG9GyqeIMsxELCvtszZYB-S1YXWoPSuE_MuGrukUqsvRE26oq4Ho0/s640/021+after+stroke+cool+platter.JPG" style="cursor: move;" width="640" /></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />Val Monkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11564133844683942529noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2880978462637000167.post-60474909226929747662017-10-11T17:36:00.001+13:002019-06-18T14:40:39.046+12:00Peter Lowrie/Daniel Steenstra kitchenware - unsung treasures<br />
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kitchenware – lidded jars, bottles, jugs and vases like this, in green or brown.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMRWiIZvPEt_iJe5R4niuWFPYGvw9fxkf6jCLwlS0JRul5n3Vx2h6MnpDPiFDXb8ozwxtqx8JgIzMrZ-eTGaPTnQ8M_nva5u_Mb-Nx1Vlx-jsplXjorwrZJVydYa7zLZY1oKQ1fapCIio/s1600/005+steenstra+lowrie+big+kitchen+jars+crop.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="387" data-original-width="498" height="496" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMRWiIZvPEt_iJe5R4niuWFPYGvw9fxkf6jCLwlS0JRul5n3Vx2h6MnpDPiFDXb8ozwxtqx8JgIzMrZ-eTGaPTnQ8M_nva5u_Mb-Nx1Vlx-jsplXjorwrZJVydYa7zLZY1oKQ1fapCIio/s640/005+steenstra+lowrie+big+kitchen+jars+crop.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Coffee jar 20 cm, sugar 14cm</span><br />
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story of his business. Peter Lowrie worked at Beach Artware in the 1970s, when
Peter and Eva Beach and their team were mass producing kitchenware – mainly lidded or
corked jars in orange or various shades of green, brown and dark blue. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Sadly, in 1977 Peter Beach died of
complications related to his severe arthritis. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>His shocked and sad widow Eva sold the
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After this, Peter Lowrie set up business on his own, throwing
and firing kitchenware, mainly lidded jars. About a year later he recruited Dan
Steenstra – and that is why we see so many of these lovely pieces, uniformly symmetrical
in shape with skilfully made thin walls and base. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Steenstra was an excellent production thrower. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Peter Lowrie described him as fast, accurate
and technically very good.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>‘He had an
easy way of making production uniform, so they looked like a nice set rather
than higgledy-piggledy.’ <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>After Dan
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he moved to a factory in Glenfield, then back to a garage in Mairangi Bay. The
business made a comfortable living through most of the 1980s. At its peak there
were three electric kilns - two medium and one large, which were in use 6 -7
days a week, either with bisque products or glazing.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></div>
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These pics are variations on the "P" from Peter Lowrie's workshop. Peter is not confident that all the ware marked "P" was made by his hand. The "P" was possibly a generic workshop mark. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></div>
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slip (liquid clay) onto the jars before they were glazed and fired.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>(In contrast, Beach Artware jars have the
lettering scratched or pressed into the clay). Peter Lowrie told me that
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The brown ware is less straightforward to identify. T<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">his tall brown jar is marked with a "P" so we can be sure it is from the Lowrie workshop. </span></div>
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similar brown glaze with gold highlights. Peter Lowrie tells me that his was slightly
lighter than Beach, but I am struggling to differentiate between the two. Peter Lowrie worked at the Beach factory, and it is likely that he continued to use some of Peter Beach’s recipes and techniques after he set up on his own. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Peter did his own selling, mainly to craft shops, hardware
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and Danny Steenstra produced the considerable output of this ware on their own. The ware made by Peter Lowrie is not widely recognised, but I am picking that in years to come it will become just as collectable as the work of better known manufacturers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Note that there are still gaps in our knowledge of Peter Lowrie's work. Comments and questions happily received! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">So here is the story of how I came to interview him. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Below is my favourite photo of Tom, which appears in the introduction of my book <i>Crown Lynn a New Zealand Icon.</i> Wouldn't we all just <u>love</u> to find that vase he is holding!</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I first met Sir Tom Clark around July 2004, when he was 88 years old.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I phoned him - <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>very nervously – <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>and told him I wanted to write a book about Crown Lynn. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>“Are you asking for money?’ he said. Others had offered to write the Crown Lynn story if he paid for their time, but after I assured him I wouldn't do that, he was more than happy to see me. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">A</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">rmed with a digital recorder and my copy of Gail Henry’s book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New Zealand Pottery Commercial and Collectable</i>, I drove to the house he shared with his wife Lady Patricia (Trish) near Kumeu.<span style="margin: 0px;"> The first time I saw him</span>, he was pruning the roses in the winter sun. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Tom was a big, tall man and he was feeling his age, but he still had the energy to work around the house and garden. On his off days he taught himself how to use a computer. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For the next few months I visited Tom once a week or thereabouts.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I took boxes of Crown Lynn and asked him how, when and where the pieces were made. I usually had written questions as well, but it's true that our discussions lacked structure – we both digressed as the inclination arose. Hospitable Lady Trish put out tea-making materials and left us to talk for a couple of hours at a time. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Unfortunately I never thought to get a photo of him and me at that time. But here he is on the day he retired from the Comalco Board in 1993.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I recorded about 11 hours of interviews with Tom <span style="font-family: "calibri";">which I transcribed and used as the basis of my first book.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I
learned an enormous amount, and though he was talking about events up
to 70 years ago, there were very, very few errors in what he told me. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For the record, Tom Clark was 'Mr Crown Lynn.' His family co-owned a West Auckland brick and pipe factory, and in the 1930s he got a company grant to set up an experimental workshop which soon grew into a factory in its own right, making domestic ware including vases and dinner sets. By 1963 Crown Lynn was turning out <u>eight million</u> pieces a year. Sadly, things changed and the factory closed in 1989. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Tom was a team player as well as a strong and forthright leader. Early on, he told me that Crown Lynn wasn't about Tom Clark, it
was about the team. He gave me a list of about 20 other people
to interview – <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>and they too proved a
goldmine of information. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">When I had a good draft of my first chapter I
gave it to Tom to check. I became more and more concerned as the days passed and
I didn’t hear from him. “He hates it,” I thought. “It must be way off beam,
totally incorrect...” etc etc.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Before he fell ill Tom had made notes on my draft, so the final
version carries the benefit of his advice. Hearteningly for me, one of his sons told me that Tom believed I would do a good job with the book. <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I am
still sad that he didn’t see it published. I would have greatly valued Tom's input and I think he would have been happy to see his life’s work
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tom Clark was an energetic, intelligent and inspiring man with
a good heart. He loved his family and in his later years he told me he regretted that his intense involvement in his work had taken him away from his children so much. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To this day I am grateful that I had the honour – and the
pleasure – of spending so much valuable time with him. I was very fortunate that Tom agreed to tell me the Crown Lynn story personally. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This last photo shows him at the helm of his beloved yacht Buccaneer. He was mad keen on sailing and was very instrumental in New Zealand's quest to win the Americas Cup - I hope that one day this story too gets the recognition it deserves. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For more information see the introduction of my book, <i>Crown Lynn a New Zealand Icon</i>, pages 8 and 9. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So what is Hobby Ceramics? Particularly in the 1980s and 1990s there was a very popular fad for ceramic decorating classes. The students were sold a selection of glazes and an undecorated bisque (fired) blank. The class was given a few pointers on how to decorate ceramics, and away they went! The decorated pieces were fired in a <span style="font-size: small;"></span>kiln then made available for the students to collect. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The blanks came from a variety of sources. Many moulds were imported direct from the United States. Some mainstream manufacturers including Orzel, Terra Ceramics and Clay Craft made blanks from their commercial moulds. Many of these still carry the manufacturer's mark, eg Clay Craft on the base. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To my knowledge Crown Lynn didn't hold Hobby Ceramics classes. The Crown Lynn blanks came mainly from moulds which were sold or 'acquired' when the factory closed in 1989.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Hobby vase is also lighter in weight than I would expect from Crown Lynn. Hobby Ceramics pieces are usually made from a cheaper clay body, fired to a lower temperature. They are not designed to be durable. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span> little Crown Lynn dish below appears often as a Hobby Ceramics piece. It carries the Crown Lynn number 2142, but you find it with various unusual glazes and transfers. The pale speckled glaze is common on hobby pieces - it must have been popular in the 1980s-1990s. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To compare, here is the same shape decorated by Frank Carpay - that's the difference between a gifted artist and an amateur!</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Below is the base of the speckled dish. As well as the Crown Lynn number, you see the initials of the decorator on the bottom left. If you look closely at this picture below, you will see three little dots. These are stilt marks. H</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">obby ware was usually fired sitting on stilts – little triangular ceramic supports that stopped them sticking to the kiln shelves when they were fired. Professionally made ware most often has an unglazed foot on the base so it can be placed on the kiln shelf without sticking. See the pic of the round Ceramica Greenstone vase base above.</span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The finished Hobby products varied wildly in quality. Ceramic decoration is not a skill you learn overnight, and there are some truly hideous pieces around. I should not be unkind to the unknown artist, but I have to say the jug on the left below is breathtakingly awful.</span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Both these jugs are marked Clay Craft on the base, and both are the same shape. The one on the right is authentic Clay Craft - the one on the left obviously is not! It has been decorated at a Hobby Ceramics class by N.R, whoever that may be. (Ignore the two green stickers - I use them to keep track of my collection.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;">And below is another from the Brown family. The vase on the left is genuine Orzel, the one on the right is Hobby - carefully painted and quite pretty, but its odd decoration, light weight and the initials 'MW' scratched into the base make me certain it is the Hobby version of this shape. (I wonder if it is the same MW who painted the Crown Lynn Ceramica Greeenstone vase above...) If you look closely you will see there is a </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;">faint 'Aquila' moulded into the base. Aquila is a brand name which was used by the Brown family at Orzel. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">EDITS - a reader Peter Crowe has reminded me that at one stage Terra made some imitation Blue Mountain ware. I am pretty confident my dolphin below is Hobby because it was slightly softer in shape and very light in weight compared with the brown version - BUT if you find heavier Terra shapes with an imitation Blue Mountain glaze, then it probably is authentic Terra. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you frequent opshops you will see more and more of these Hobby pieces - people who were given them in the Hobby Ceramics boom in the 1980s and 1990s are now begining to downsize. Quite often Hobby pieces were made as gifts. You often see "Love to Nana' (or whatever) and a date painted on the base. I couldn't resist the quirky message on this little plate, painted by Bonnie's friend Sarah. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One last comment - not all Hobby Ceramics is amateurish. A friend of mine remembers competitions for the best pieces; some entries were of a very high standard. I like this mug, for example.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And these toucans, though obviously not professional, show artistic merit - far beyond anything I could aspire to!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">EDITS - wonderful Ev Williams has added a whole lot more info to the New Zealand Pottery site.<a href="http://www.newzealandpottery.net/t8557-new-blog-post-on-hobby-ceramics#33885"> Click here</a> to see what she has to say! </span></div>
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made detailed mugs, ashtrays, toby jugs and figurines, which are sought after today. Some of
this ware is marked ‘Sherwood’ in various ways. They also made unglazed blanks for Owen
Salisbury, who decorated them in his Royal Oak factory near Penrose. </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> Sherwood has no relationship with Crown Lynn.</span><br />
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renamed it Titian Studio. By 1960 they had about 16 staff, and this is the
period when the ware we generally recognise as Titian was made. Quite a lot is numbered, and often a letter is
incorporated in the number on the base – V for vase, B for bowl, etc. </span></div>
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exquisite pieces included a flying gull, leaping fish, a swordfish, wall birds,
wall vases shaped like butterfies and flowers and fish… all carefully shaped
and decorated. This butterfly wall vase from my friend Jim's collection shows the delicate glazing techniques used by the Browns at Titian. </span></div>
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limited liability company, Titian Potteries (1965) Ltd, and sold shares. </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The new Titian factory was established in Takanini in
mid-1966.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">By now Titian was making
branded ware for a range of distributors, including Syliva Ware, Paramount
Ware, Montrose Ware and Cambridge Ware – this is where the ‘Cambridge’ marked
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and began buying up shares. By May 1968, Crown Lynn had a majority shareholding and the company newsletter annouced a "partnership" with the Brown family - in reality a takeover. </span></div>
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">This is when the confusion arises.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">In the ex-Titian factory, Crown Lynn began
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white vases.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> These </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">products are marked with a four-digit shape number, like
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">To add to the confusion, the factory was generally known as 'the Titian factory" long after it fell into Crown Lynn's ownership. And, the factory continued to make some Titian shapes after the Crown Lynn takeover. Thus, you will see the same jug shape with and without the Crown Lynn four-digit shape number. The "Cambridge" jugs are a good example - this one was made after the takeover; on the base there is a faint 6027 along with the word Cambridge. </span><br />
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and Dorothy missed their independence. They set up a workshop in their garage at home in Papakura and they and their son Cameron began doing contract production work in their spare time. This became profitable enough for them to leave Crown Lynn and by 1972 they had bought a property at Firth St in Drury and set up a new factory. </span><br />
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family enterprise.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The new ware was
named Orzel after the Polish Eagle.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">(Cam
Snr was in the Polish merchant navy during the second world war – an
interesting story but it will have to wait for another time!). The brands Aquila and Adelaar (also meaning eagle) were also made at the Orzel factory during this period.<span style="margin: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> </span></span></span></div>
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Orzel. </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The enterprise grew and grew, at
its height in the mid-1980s there were about 40 staff. Orzel was a big and busy
factory.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">They made terracotta kitchen
ware which was sold at The Warehouse, jugs, sugar bowls, etc etc etc.</span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> Unfortuately much of the Orzel ware is not marked - but after a while you learn to recognise the shapes and glazes.</span></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">In the 1990s the market slowed, and after Dorothy then
Cameron Snr died the business ebbed to a close. </span><span style="margin: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Today, Cameron Jnr and his wife Beverley –
sometimes assisted by their son, also named Cameron – make kiwiana ware to sell
at markets around the country. They use the brand name Sherwood. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><i><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Much of this information has come from Gail Henry’s book
“New Zealand Pottery, Commercial and Collectable” and from my interviews with
Cameron Brown Jnr and his wife Dorothy. </span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><i><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Ev Williams has also made a major contribution, both personally and through her </span><a href="http://www.newzealandpottery.net/"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">NewZealand Pottery</span></a><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"> website. </span></i></span><br />
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Val Monkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11564133844683942529noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2880978462637000167.post-26895028294406139612016-11-15T15:09:00.000+13:002016-11-18T14:35:49.423+13:00Not just Crown Lynn - get help to identify your pottery If you would like to know more about a piece of NZ pottery - of any age or genre - drop into our FREE pottery clinic in Titirangi on Sunday 27 Nov between 1 and 3 pm. <br />
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Ev Williams, the co-founder and moderator of the NZ pottery website and I will be at the Learning Centre at Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery (previously Lopdell House Gallery) holding the clinic under the umbrella of the Auckland Festival of Ceramics. <br />
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Anytime between 1 and 3 pm, just bowl in with your piece of pottery. If you have questions we will endeavour to help; if you just want to show us something special, then we will be delighted to have a look. <br />
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Together, Ev and I have a formidable knowledge of NZ studio and commercial pottery including Crown Lynn, Orzel, Beach Artware, Titian, Royal Oak, Studio Ceramics, Christine Harris, Keriblue - you name it! (she says optimistically). Much of our wonderful NZ pottery is unmarked, but after decades of researach Ev and I can identify most of the makers and manufacturers. <br />
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Ev has an exellent working knowledge of her fellow studio potters - she should be able to identify the maker of your interesting hand-thrown piece with the mysterious mark. <br />
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Don't be shy. We would love to see you and your pottery. And we will have some examples on display too. Meanwhile, here are a few pics to whet your whistle: <br />
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<u>Beach Artware</u> - orange is very popular, but you also see Beachother colours including brown, green, and blue. It is very very very seldom marked.<i></i> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEUCiFWW4VwGHsPzYliK6jP-wrkhYah9Fh93ZhDXlihrmAgfW8kAXi-VYsxlLfy9OY_09RYBjAO7-siEitS7zCaeylhwCo5ieCPV1B8pUGcYTtAAAKA4TwMho02BnSlYixX360kJhE1JQ/s1600/Beach.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEUCiFWW4VwGHsPzYliK6jP-wrkhYah9Fh93ZhDXlihrmAgfW8kAXi-VYsxlLfy9OY_09RYBjAO7-siEitS7zCaeylhwCo5ieCPV1B8pUGcYTtAAAKA4TwMho02BnSlYixX360kJhE1JQ/s640/Beach.JPG" width="640" /></a><br />
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<u>Brendan Adams</u> which is becoming increasingly collectable. <br />
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Ev's favourite <u>shino glazed pots</u> from her extensive collection <br />
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<u>Christine Harris</u> from her days at Studio Ceramics - love those crazy egg cups! The pattern at the right rear is called Belize. <br />
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<u>Kevin Kilsby</u> - who is still making his delightful ware in Auckland. <br />
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<u>Bob Steiner</u> - likewise, Bob still has a busy workshop and sales shop in Auckland. <br />
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<u>Petra Ceramics, Stage Artware and Terra Ceramics</u>. <br />
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<u> Parker Pottery</u> <br />
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Remember though that Ev and I are not valuers. We can give you an indication of the rarity and coolectableness of a piece, but neither of us are particularly keen on trying to estimate what it might be worth. <br />
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Val Monkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11564133844683942529noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2880978462637000167.post-89184792523596254722015-05-21T16:28:00.001+12:002020-09-14T15:39:11.945+12:00The mysterious terracotta vases... <div><b><i>A quick edit - we now know that this ware was made by Daniel Steenstra at Crown Lynn. This was discovered by Rosemary Deane, the Curator of the Crown Lynn museum Te Toi Uku. She interviewed John Heap who was assistant factory manager in the 1960s-1970s, and he was able to give her the background. </i></b></div><div><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div><b><i> I will add more to this when I have the time. </i></b><b><i>Meanwhile here is the link to the Te Toi Uku information. </i></b></div><div><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div><a href="https://tetoiuku.org.nz/story/the-real-maker-of-the-rhodes-vases/?fbclid=IwAR0kj8-3yo_7teFwZ1DRMNME9BnFWmOR8aGT9QVtxk3BlocQdlOkC8sTd0g">https://tetoiuku.org.nz/story/the-real-maker-of-the-rhodes-vases/?fbclid=IwAR0kj8-3yo_7teFwZ1DRMNME9BnFWmOR8aGT9QVtxk3BlocQdlOkC8sTd0g</a></div><div><br /></div>For years now I have been trying to work out who made the Crown Lynn terracotta vases. They look like this (my one and only example.)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgva6RA4A4AjnGlyb1Nfl5QuLTG4RJjNLujUeh96uR7JBVqi9Kz090IRnROp1fR2dKW3tN9Pm9ZZQy2tgjRZKLcM0SIgeLBBc40Gt-zbXs7fwRgVPXF0eqzWsL2Jp6WRz11sEPAY3AOis8/s1600/Hand+08+terracotta+vase.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgva6RA4A4AjnGlyb1Nfl5QuLTG4RJjNLujUeh96uR7JBVqi9Kz090IRnROp1fR2dKW3tN9Pm9ZZQy2tgjRZKLcM0SIgeLBBc40Gt-zbXs7fwRgVPXF0eqzWsL2Jp6WRz11sEPAY3AOis8/s640/Hand+08+terracotta+vase.JPG" width="464" /></a><br />
They are hand thrown and have a Crown Lynn star and tiki stamp on the base. My example is 16 cm high and most are a similar height or smaller. <br />
These pots are quite classy - hand thrown terracotta which has often been textured with some kind of tool, then dipped in various glazes and slips (the muted green around the neck of my pot above is coloured slip - a mixture of runny clay and a mineral colour.) <br />
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The terracotta ware was first mentioned in Gail Henry's groundbreaking book <em>New Zealand Pottery Commercial and Collectable</em>. When I was interviewing Crown Lynn's founder Sir Tom Clark I showed him the photos from Gail's second edition (page 196) and he said no, Crown Lynn would never have made anything out of terracotta, because coloured clay would have contaminated the machinery, discolouring the white clay body which they were working so hard to develop. </div>
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There is no doubt that these pots are Crown Lynn, they are clearly stamped with the star and tiki mark, which was used from about 1948-1955. And my pot is by no means a one-off - see the lovely collection below, belonging to mumof1 from the New Zealand Pottery website. </div>
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The terracotta ware has been attributed to a couple, Arthur and Olive Rhodes - but I am struggling to find any meaningful reference to potters with this name. So far as I can ascertain, the reference to the Rhodes' comes from the catalogue of the huge Jim Drummond sale at Art + Object in Auckland on 3 May 2009. <a href="http://www.artandobject.co.nz/AuctionResources/231/12,43,25,Jim_Drummond_Collection.pdf">Here is a link</a> to that exceptional catalogue, a real gem and thanks so much to the auction house keeping it online. The terracotta vases are items 232 - 234, page 15. </div>
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Anyway. Jim told me that the reference to the Rhodes' which he used in his catalogue came from an old exhibition catalogue, but he couldn't find a copy to show me (by the time I asked him, several years had passed since Jim had closed his wonderful antique shop, and his papers were stored or dispersed.) I have asked the auction house, and everyone else I can think of if they know anything about Arthur and Olive Rhodes but so far I have drawn a blank. Which troubles me. </div>
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So let's say that these pots were made by someone other than the elusive Rhodes? Umm... who? The two main hand potters associated with Crown Lynn were Ernest Shufflebotham and Daniel Steenstra, although there were others. Shufflebotham is known for his pure elegant forms, mainly white and pastels. These shapes don't really look like his. And Steenstra joined Crown Lynn in 1953, at most only a couple of years before - to my knowledge - the star and tiki stamp was discontinued. The pots are more in his style than in Shufflebotham's, but I have never seen a reference to Steenstra making anything at Crown Lynn out of terracotta. And all his work I have seen so far is rounded rather than angular. He did use texture to decorate some of his work, but that's about the only connection, and a flimsy one at that. </div>
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This terracotta ware was made by Crown Lynn, probably between 1948 and the early to mid 1950s. </div>
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They were most probably made by someone away from the Crown Lynn factory - I say this because Tom Clark had no memory of them, and because they are made from terracotta which would not have been allowed anywhere near the machinery which mixed the white clay body which Crown Lynn developed for its domestic ware. </div>
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So the jury is still out on this one. My best, most 'educated' guess, is that there was a potter who worked outside the Crown Lynn factory somewhere, who made a job lot of these hand-thrown pots which were sold under the Crown Lynn brand. Who it was, I have no idea. Sadly so many of Crown Lynn's paper records were destroyed over the years in factory fires, or dumped when the factory closed in 1989.<br />
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Our only hope is that something turns up in the records which are now held in Te Toi Uku, the new <a href="http://portageceramicstrust.org.nz/">Crown Lynn museum</a> in West Auckland. This museum, which is open by arrangement, houses a large collection of papers and objects collected by the late Richard Quinn. Researchers are currently sifting through this collection so who knows - something may turn up. Here's hoping! <br />
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EDITS TO ADD - <a href="http://www.newzealandpottery.net/t6402-val-monk-discusses-the-rhodes-pottery-in-her-blog#25191">Ev Williams</a> from the New Zealand Pottery website has some interesting thoughts on this pottery. Well worth a read. <br />
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My apologies for the lengthy gap between posts. Hopefully I am back on track now. <br />
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<br />Val Monkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11564133844683942529noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2880978462637000167.post-17210014977735330152015-03-31T17:06:00.003+13:002015-03-31T17:06:36.435+13:00What I did in the holidays! It's been a long time since I last posted on this site - you will be forgiven if you have totally lost interest, but I do have an excuse of sorts. The biggest event of the summer was our wedding! Yes, George and I got married after 13 years together. Here we are signing the register. (Papers held down with dive weights.) Photos thanks to our friend Douglas Madgwick. <br />
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Our wedding was at home in Whangarei; it was a lovely day and all went well. Afterwards friends and family gathered under our home-made awnings (adapted from old advertising banners) in the garden. </div>
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And guess what the tables were set with. My favourite Crown Lynn patterns: I don't have complete dinner sets in all these, but we did have enough plates for 50 plus guests. <br />
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Here's cheery Topaz. </div>
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Beautiful Egmont. </div>
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The ubiquitous Echo. I have a very large set but sadly George doesn't like this pattern. So in the shed it remains. </div>
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My lovely lovely Nirvana. </div>
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And - of course - Autumn Splendour, which will go to my daughter once her children get old enough not to drop plates on the floor. </div>
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My friend Lois made us a lovely floral arrangement in her Temuka vase, and of course my precious Kelvinator jug did duty as a water carafe. Out came my hollow-stemmed champagne glasses. (And no the table wasn't at an angle... blame the photographer!) <br />
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We found some quirky opshop salt and peppers and used my collection of NZ commercial ceramic water jugs and that was the table decorations taken care of. Simple! <br />
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More soon - I have some serious stuff to write about Crown Lynn now I have at last got my feet back under the desk. <br />
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Take care<br />
Val Monk Irwin. <br />
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