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Art Deco is geometric, angular and streamlined and the colours are usually bold and dramatic. The Art Deco style was applied to decorative art as well as architecture. Art Deco is associated with luxury, style and high living.
Dexterity games are characterized by the simple, but often very difficult aim of trying to get small moving parts into holes or go through hoops. They are often cased in circular or rectangular wood or metal glazed boxes and they often have lovely colour printed graphics. They first became popular during the late 19th century and were exported around the world.
Clarice Cliff was born in 1899 in Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent and by the time she was 13 she had started an apprenticeship at a local pottery. When she was 17 she had joined A.J. Wilkinson’s who were a successful Burslem pottery. Her talent was soon spotted and in 1922 she was made an apprentice modeller and started working in the factory’s design studio.
The history of Shelley pottery goes right back to the foundation of the Foley Potteries in 1827, but it was the arrival of Frederick Rhead in 1896 as Art Director of Wileman & Co that heralded the beginning of 40 years of creative innovation and huge success for the company. Although Rhead was only at the company [...]
Brannam Pottery is highly sought after and the number of collectors continues to grow. Many people stumble on Brannam as a result of collecting Torquay Pottery and other related ‘Devonshire’ ware.
The name of Brannam has been associated with pottery making in the north Devon town of Barnstaple since the 1840s, but production really took off when Charles Hubert Brannam became involved in the running of his father’s Litchdon Street pottery in 1879. Prior to this Charles had studied both pottery techniques and the history of art.
From the late 19th century and throughout both the Art Nouveau and Art Deco periods Gouda Pottery produced distinctive, highly fashionable pieces of ornamental and functional ware. There are many pieces that are affordable for the new collector but there are also rare pieces that have the serious collector sit up and take notice.
Gouda is the output of not just one, but a large group of different factories working from Southern Holland, largely in the town of Gouda itself and potteries from nearby towns. This means there is a large output and dating and interpreting the backstamp can be quite difficult. While Gouda was initially best known in Holland, it has gained in popularity and is now collected world-wide.
Art Deco ceramics have always been much sought after, but as prices for these are now rather steep, enthusiasts are examining other wares. Although unfashionable until a few years ago, ceramics made in the Poole Pottery mad in the Poole factory in Dorset during the 1950s, 60s and 70s are beginning to attract a lot of attention.
These later pieces, just like their Art Deco forerunners, perfectly encapsulate the distinctive styles of the era in which they were made and they are of a very good quality.