Let's Talk About Pottery & Collectables

Pottery => Studio Pottery => England => Topic started by: keith on May 18, 2016, 02:20:20 PM

Title: Ruskin for show.
Post by: keith on May 18, 2016, 02:20:20 PM

Picked this up recently, local piece for me signed by William Howsen Taylor, dated 1934,usually expensive but this has a small hairline crack to the base, ;D ;D

Title: Re: Ruskin for show.
Post by: user9318 on May 19, 2016, 07:11:29 AM

Very nice, enjoy it.

Title: Re: Ruskin for show.
Post by: Anne on May 19, 2016, 06:50:16 PM

I'm not familiar with Ruskin pottery really, but it's an interesting piece Keith. I found there is a Wikipedia page about Ruskin with some photos of other examples so am adding the link as a handy reference here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruskin_Pottery

Title: Re: Ruskin for show.
Post by: keith on May 19, 2016, 07:43:45 PM

Might be off to the museum next week to see the collection, shame the Smethwick heritage trust museum only has one piece, I'll leave them mine if the 'kids' don't want it !  :o :ao: :ao: