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Post by stillscurrying Wed Feb 01, 2012 10:22 pm


I contacted the seller (tigerruss) and have their written permission to include the pictures on the forum - it might help identify other pieces of his work if the label is missing.

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Post by NaomiM Mon Nov 19, 2012 11:51 am

Met Richard Godfrey at Art In Clay, Farnham, 2012, and bought a mug from his range of wares bearing very bright glazes and jazzy decoration.

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He doesn't normally sign his mugs (just his limited and one off pieces), but I asked him to sign this one.

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He warned me that a large number of pots were ruined in a gallery fire a couple of years ago, but are now finding their way onto ebay listed as "undamaged", even though the glaze has been damaged.

He's been potting for several decades, and his modern stuff is very different from the slipware he was producing back in the 70s and 80s - most of which was sold to Cranks restaurant chain.
From wikipedia:
Cranks was a chain of English wholefood vegetarian restaurants, of which only one now remains at Totnes, Devon. It was founded and owned by David and Kay Canter and Daphne Swann, and its flagship restaurant was at Marshall Street in the West End of London.
He says that Cranks' diners were buying his domestic wares so quickly that he was sending boxes full to London to resupply the restaurants each week.

His mark has also changed over the years: The small impressed spoked wheel mark is now a larger setting sun mark. However, there are similarities in the zig-zag and dot style of decoration.

Examples of his 70s-80s style slipware pots can be seen on this thread:

https://www.20thcenturyforum.com/t8407-a-well-decorated-slipware-jug


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Post by NaomiM Mon Nov 19, 2012 10:31 pm

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Post by kimberly3.2 Sun May 12, 2013 3:54 pm

hi there, long time reader....first time poster! I couldn't find what I was looking for on previous posts or in the 'signature' forum, so I hoped somebody would recognises the signature on the bottom of this mug (if I have sussed the image upload!)

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on the base of:

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I am one of these people that gets stuck doing all the ebaying whenever an older family member is having a clear out! reading your forum has helped me identify mdina glass so at least I had a clue what it was I was listing, but I cant even read this one!

Thanks for any help!
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Post by NaomiM Tue Aug 06, 2013 2:15 pm

Another mug

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Post by mderouss Sun Jan 05, 2014 9:44 pm

Hi folk,

I have a bad memory :).

One of the teapots below ( the yellow one, as it happens ) I remember purchasing in a nice pottery with a cafe attached on my way back from Cornwall about 20 years ago. There were cups to be had too, but I couldn't afford a complete set. But that's all I can remember about it.

Just recently I came across a clearly related teapot at a craft fair ( the red one, by a process of elimination... ).

For reasons that are unclear to me, I have tagged the yellow teapot in my mind with 'Dartington'. But who knows - there are lots of potteries between Penzance and Southeast England....

So I'm just trying to discover a little more about these, the first thing being the potter ? Any ideas ?

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Post by NaomiM Sat Dec 13, 2014 8:21 pm

Sadly Richard Godfrey died today. He was a great potter and a lovely man.

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Post by slopingsteve Wed Jan 27, 2016 5:48 pm

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Qu'est-ce que c'est?

Pretentious,moi?

Mais, Non!!!

Je gagne l'O level en Francais depuis les 44 ans!

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Post by dantheman Wed Jan 27, 2016 6:54 pm

yes it looks like Richard's work, he's the nicest potter I ever met and is sadly missed

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Post by Dsandandrew Mon Aug 13, 2018 11:47 am

managed to pick up this trio of modern sculptures and have no idea who made them.

Can anyone help me with this. I have purchased them for resale so if anyone has any ides on value as well then that would be great.

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Post by NaomiM Mon Aug 13, 2018 11:59 am

Very nice. It’s by the late Richard Godfrey. A lovely man who turned from functional slipware to sculptural pieces and bright slip glazes late in life.

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Post by philpot Mon Aug 13, 2018 6:35 pm

Nice one indeed!
There was an Antiques Roadshow from Plymouth a year or two ago which had a couple of pieces by him. They were not cheap. He worked in the beautiful South Hams, and as Naomi said, was a lovely man. Was sadly missed a his relatively early death in his early sixties. His work is not on the open market very often, and your best bet for a price guide is Ebay. Although personally I would keep them as an investment. There is nothing else quite like his later work in the whole of modern studio pottery
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Post by NaomiM Mon Aug 13, 2018 7:53 pm

Onlineceramics.com stocks his work but their prices are a bit high, imo.

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Post by Dsandandrew Mon Aug 13, 2018 9:43 pm

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Post by philpot Sat Dec 22, 2018 9:10 pm

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14 inch bowl.



This is Richard Godfrey's mark from his renowned vivid glaze pots.


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Post by NaomiM Wed Jul 10, 2019 7:11 pm

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Post by NaomiM Wed Jul 10, 2019 8:17 pm

It was his standard ware range in the first 20-30 years. He said he sold tons of it to the restaurant chains in London and the South East

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Post by NaomiM Wed Aug 14, 2019 11:53 pm

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Richard Godfrey Empty Yule Time Candle Holders Circle and Cross mark - Richard Godfrey

Post by RVsaid Thu Dec 03, 2020 11:59 am

Hi

I picked these up recently and just noticed the holly leaves are broken but anyways...... I failed to run down a circle and cross with line mark and then thinking it's just a circular form stamp I tried a straight cross and line search. I couldn't find anything.

Pretty sure they will be local Devon and probably from a Monastery or Abbey??

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Post by NaomiM Thu Dec 03, 2020 9:45 pm

I think it’s Richard Godfrey’s early mark. Not his usual slipware

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Post by RVsaid Fri Dec 04, 2020 6:27 pm

That's great. Cheers cutie 👍
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Post by philpot Sun Jan 24, 2021 7:28 am

 

A fascinating interview with the late Richard Godfrey.
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Post by philpot Sun Jan 24, 2021 7:31 am



Richard Godfrey video blog 2010,
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Post by philpot Sun Jan 24, 2021 7:35 am



A second shorter and later Richard Godfrey video blog, You get a real sense of what a lovely man he was'
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Post by dantheman Sun Jan 24, 2021 11:09 am

Thanks, Phil, that really cheered me up.
Richard was one of the nicest men I have met and I always walked away smiling after a conversation with him.

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