I love connecting long forgotten potters to potteries. The latest is Len Street and Rosecraddoc Pottery (sometimes called Rosecraddor because of the old fashioned font used on the boxes, which makes the c look like an r). The Pottery is listed on The Digital Museum of Cornish Ceramics, and was based in or near Liskeard, […]
One of the first names I checked in the Yates-Owen/Fournier BSPM Archive was Trentham de Leliva’s written mark. The monogram is made up of T d and L in his name (the d looks like a P, I’ve added a photo of it to Tentham de Leliva’s entry on the BISPM database). I was checking […]
So my Christmas present this year was the British Studio Pottery Marks archive, collected and collated by Eric Yates-Owen and Robert Fournier. I had a tip off it was coming up for auction in December at Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood in Exeter so I popped a large absentee bid on it and won it! Made […]
