Dick & Barbara Wright, Gosforth Pottery, Birkhurst Pottery, Cumbria

Hi all, This is a large stoneware bowl,with what looks like an EP in a oval Impressed mark on the base.Or could it be DB the other way? Thanks in advance for any info.

does anybody know anything about this mark??? Thanks

I'm sure I have seen this before and found out who it was by, but at the moment it escapes me. If I remember I'll let you know.

anybody got any idea's of this mark yet xx

We have looked at several EP marks. I don't think its Edinbane Pottery

looks more like a clover leaf to me

or mJ

Any help identifying this vase would be greatly appreciated, not even sure if the pic I have taken of the mark is the right way round.

Possibly Dennis Bullock, Saltash and Pillaton, Cornwall in the 1970s- 90s. (full name = John Dennis Bullock) - info is from Ceramike, although the mark they have for him is a little different, but both marks look to be a combination of JDB

NaomiM wrote:Possibly Dennis Bullock, Saltash and Pillaton, Cornwall in the 1970s- 90s. (full name = John Dennis Bullock) - info is from Ceramike, although the mark they have for him is a little different, but both marks look to be a combination of JDB

I have had a look at the mark you are referring to on Ceramike & like you say it is slightly different & there's not much Dennis Bullock pottery about to compare it to so it is the best suggestion so far. I do think it is a form of letters conjoined together but it does slightly resemble a clover leaf when viewed the other way round, or maybe that's just me, I am due an eye test :)

True, the other way up it looks like a tree.
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I have had a quick look into Gosforth pottery & can't find a maker's mark but on their website there is a picture of their shop & what looks like a similar shaped piece on their shelves of pottery but can't be sure.

This is a picture of their mark. Yours looks like an upside down mirror image of it.

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/175077504236470371/

http://www.gosforth-pottery.co.uk/contact.html

10 cm diameter

Could you please help me to id this small vase with an incised mark.
Height: 7.5cm

I think it's upside down. Looks like Gosforth Pottery.

Hi Naomi, thanks for your suggestion. It does resemble Gosforth Pottery ( Richard & Barbara Wright ) sprigged mark in Yates-Owen and Fournier if you look at the mark in a mirror. Perhaps the mark in the book has been mis-printed in reverse. I usually look and read a mark in the manner that is the easiest to be applied, eg. nearest the edge.
Having said all this I think you are correct.

I have another one with the mark the 'wrong way round' and suspect the book is wrong

A charity shop find for 20p - can anyone help identify the stamp?

Mug stands about 4" tall. The handle has a definite lean to the right. A mistake or designed to fit a left-hander?

Richard and barbara Wright

Thanks, zippy!

Makes sense as I'm only a "stone's throw" from Brampton although it does emphasise my comment on the "Building a Library" thread I started: Yates-Owen's "British Studio Potter's Marks" is "useful for confirming what you already know rather than discovering what you don't".

Tempted as I am to follow Mordeep's advice to 'sex up' my descriptions, I think I'll just stick with describing this as a green bowl standing about 3" high by 4" wide with incised leaf decoration.



Can anyone help with identifying the potter or studio from the stamp?  A stylised " c b":



or a "leaf":




Many thanks,
Greenie

Gosforth Pottery