Topic: Scottish Dunmore Pottery Griffin Bowl?

[wiggy131]

Hello, I hope you don?t mind me contacting you regarding a bowl that I have. As you can see from the picture the bowl has 3 Griffins around the edge and stands on 3 legs. I took it into Lyon and Turnbull Auctions Edinburgh and they thought that it might be a Dunmore design. Do you recognize it?
Best Wishes
Vickie 

[Anne]

Hi Vickie, what a fun piece that is. It's not a design I've seen before, I take it there isn't a DUNMORE mark on it anywhere? The examples I've seen had an impressed text mark in upper case which gets filled with glaze sometimes.

I found a few sites with more examples and info about Dunmore which are worth a browse through for interest:
http://www.dustystuff.co.uk/dustystuffpage2.htm
http://collections.glasgowmuseums.com/cld.html?cid=534807&img=1
http://www.instirling.com/whatson/dunmore.htm
http://www.falkirkherald.co.uk/community/nostalgia/potters-art-still-endures-1-2285471

The final bit on the last link above might be worth exploring too - it says:

If you are interested in knowing more about Dunmore Pottery then there is an excellent article by Brian Watters in the Local History Journal Calatria 15 of Autumn 2005 and a booklet on all the local potteries, ?Local Ceramics? by Geoff Bailey published by Falkirk Museums in 2002. They are both available in our libraries.

There's also a listing from one of Lyon and Turnbull Auctions which has a different griffin jardiniere here:
http://www.artfact.com/auction-lot/a-large-dunmore-jardiniere-and-stand,-the-lobed-o-43-c-ed1cd0678c but it's totally different to yours, but may explain why they suggested Dunmore for yours too.

[wiggy131]

Hello Anne,
                 Thank you so much for all the resources you found for me, that was very kind of you! I will have a good look at them. I did a little research and found out the e-mail address of the Scottish pottery society, so I have e-mailed a few pictures, so hopefully they will get back to me. It's a shame it has a few chips and knocks. It doesn't have any sign of a backstamp. It has a very rainbowy glaze, as you can see from the pictures and a dark clay or earthenware body. I thought it might be a Farnham Pottery piece, just from the glaze colour? But when I had a look through some of the info you gave me, It does have that olive green look of Dunmore! It's a mystery!
I'll let you know how I get on!
Thanks again for your time,
Vickie