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British and Irish Studio Pottery Marks

Warren Mackenzie’s UK marks

Warren Mackenzie was a well known US studio potter and one of the exponents of the Mingei movement of Anglo-Japanese studio pottery. During 1950s-60s he spend several years traversing between his studio in Stillwater, Minnesota, USA, and Devon and Cornwall in England. And in later years he spent several sabbaticals at the Leach Pottery in […]

Trentham de Leliva misattribution

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 […]