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Sgraffito owl mug - Arthur Griffiths?
by NaomiM May 29th 2013, 7:54 pm
Dealer thought it was by Arthur Griffiths, and the mark looks like his initials, aG, but can't find an example of Griffiths's mark for comparison.
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Re: Sgraffito owl mug - Arthur Griffiths?
by Oldmagpie May 29th 2013, 8:24 pm
there is an Arthur J Griffiths impressed mark in Goddens for 1948- its not as curvy as yours and in a rectangle rather than a circle. He worked at both Crowan and Leach whether that's any help or not I don't know 
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Re: Sgraffito owl mug - Arthur Griffiths?
by studio-pots May 29th 2013, 8:38 pm
The mark does look quite like Arthur Griffith's mark but the mug is nothing like his work.
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Re: Sgraffito owl mug - Arthur Griffiths?
by NaomiM May 29th 2013, 8:59 pm
studio-pots wrote:....but the mug is nothing like his work.
Agreed. It's more like a piece of Bideford pottery.
I'm wondering if an apprentice has got hold of one of Griffith's jugs to practice their sgraffito technique. I'll have a look through the list of potters at Crowan to see if someone like Matt Grimmitt was ever there.
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Re: Sgraffito owl mug - Arthur Griffiths?
by studio-pots May 29th 2013, 9:06 pm
The handle and shape of the jug wouldn't fit with Griffith's work either.
Don't understand the Crowan/Grimmitt reference, as Matt has only been potting for a few years and, although I don't know his age, guess that he might not have been born when Crowan closed in 1962.
Don't understand the Crowan/Grimmitt reference, as Matt has only been potting for a few years and, although I don't know his age, guess that he might not have been born when Crowan closed in 1962.
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Re: Sgraffito owl mug - Arthur Griffiths?
by NaomiM May 29th 2013, 9:11 pm
Oops, ok not Corwan, then.
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Re: Sgraffito owl mug - Arthur Griffiths?
by studio-pots May 29th 2013, 9:27 pm
Matt is Elijah Comfort's great great grandson so that I would guess he is in his late twenties/early thirties. Comfort was the old boy, who helped Michael Cardew in the early days at Winchcombe, having worked at the pottery then owned by the Beckett family before it had closed down in 1914.
Matt is really very inexperienced but I understand that he has been left in charge at the Winchcombe Pottery recently, so really thrown in at the deep end.
Matt is really very inexperienced but I understand that he has been left in charge at the Winchcombe Pottery recently, so really thrown in at the deep end.
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Re: Sgraffito owl mug - Arthur Griffiths?
by Potty May 29th 2013, 9:32 pm
I quite rate Matt Grimmitt's medieval style pottery. 
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Re: Sgraffito owl mug - Arthur Griffiths?
by NaomiM May 29th 2013, 9:35 pm
Matt's definitely one to watch.
However, in this respect I only meant someone of Matt's caliber, not necessarily Matt himself.
However, in this respect I only meant someone of Matt's caliber, not necessarily Matt himself.
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Re: Sgraffito owl mug - Arthur Griffiths?
by studio-pots May 29th 2013, 9:44 pm
This isn't going to get this owl mug identified though. It's nothing like the work of Arthur Griffiths, nothing like anything made in Bideford or at the Crowan Pottery or anything that Matt Grimmitt has made.
A person with an owl avatar must know the answer or the avatar needs to go!
A person with an owl avatar must know the answer or the avatar needs to go!
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Re: Sgraffito owl mug - Arthur Griffiths?
by NaomiM May 29th 2013, 9:53 pm
To whit, to who?
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Re: Sgraffito owl mug - Arthur Griffiths?
by skay May 29th 2013, 9:53 pm
Quick Potty, get Bess on here!
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Re: Sgraffito owl mug - Arthur Griffiths?
by Potty May 30th 2013, 12:01 am
studio-pots wrote:A person with an owl avatar must know the answer or the avatar needs to go!
Look what you made me do!
I'll get her to have a look skay
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Re: Sgraffito owl mug - Arthur Griffiths?
by studio-pots May 30th 2013, 8:07 am
Now that's far more butch.
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Re: Sgraffito owl mug - Arthur Griffiths?
by Potty May 30th 2013, 3:39 pm
Oh good 
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Re: Sgraffito owl mug - Arthur Griffiths?
by NaomiM May 7th 2014, 5:57 pm
Another slipware owl jug with this mark
https://www.20thcenturyforum.com/t14619-slipware-owl-mug#117127
https://www.20thcenturyforum.com/t14619-slipware-owl-mug#117127
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