Emmanuel Cooper

Not mine but asking for a friend called Geoffrey. I think it looks like porcelain but he's not too sure.

.... and the two marks that are as clear as possible.

Has he had it long?

The glazes are the same as Christine-Ann Richard's recent work...not that that will help.

The 2nd mark remind me a lot of Emmanuel Cooper, I don't know much about his pots, but assume you'd have already ruled him out?

Thanks for your suggestions. The platter does look like Christine-Anne's work but not like Emmanuel Cooper's but the marks aren't right.

I've asked him to describe the mark on the right but no reply yet.

Apologies to you Potty. Geoffrey thinks that the mark on the right is a rounded backed E so it looks like it is an Emmanuel Cooper piece, although not that recent. I just don't associate this type of glaze with him.

first mark 1973-80 second mark 1980

So that probably dates it to c 1980.

It's 11 inches (28 cm) in diameter.

"Smooth clear base glaze with local reduction "Clotted Blood Red" add 1% Tin + 0.5% Copper Carbonate & 0.5% Silicon Carbide - Electric Fired/Oxidised Atmosphere" - EC

studio-pots wrote:Apologies to you Potty. Geoffrey thinks that the mark on the right is a rounded backed E so it looks like it is an Emmanuel Cooper piece, although not that recent. I just don't associate this type of glaze with him.

He did play around with glazes like this one, here are some of his glaze test samples:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-RuY2VQ9NBPk/TWvz0Iw5a-I/AAAAAAAAB1g/iLs9Avh5Z7U/s1600/1+421.jpg

Mud Baker wrote:"Smooth clear base glaze with local reduction "Clotted Blood Red" add 1% Tin + 0.5% Copper Carbonate & 0.5% Silicon Carbide - Electric Fired/Oxidised Atmosphere" - EC

Now you're getting all technical. Is that from one of his books?

Potty wrote:

studio-pots wrote:Apologies to you Potty. Geoffrey thinks that the mark on the right is a rounded backed E so it looks like it is an Emmanuel Cooper piece, although not that recent. I just don't associate this type of glaze with him.

He did play around with glazes like this one, here are some of his glaze test samples:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-RuY2VQ9NBPk/TWvz0Iw5a-I/AAAAAAAAB1g/iLs9Avh5Z7U/s1600/1+421.jpg

To be honest I've never had any interest in his work and never bought a piece even to sell on so this is all new to me. Don't think I'll be converted.

The marks are as Ed had mentioned, so c1980 when I think he made standard type forms as did most. His glaze trials where issued in his book "The Potters Book of Glaze Recipes". Potty shows a link which offers test tiles for the glaze I think somewhere amongst the red/whites. I think his work has a certain following and since he's now not with us prices for his work have rocketed!!.....so nice find.

You are correct about prices of his work and him having a following.

One of my customers has a large collection, which I've seen, and there were a few bowls in the collection that impressed me. However, you know I like wood-fired pots so they're not really me.

I have advised Geoffrey accordingly.

Help needed in identifying the potter of this lovely bowl.  It appears to be made out of two materials: a stoneware band top and bottom  with pink then blue porcelain (?) in the middle.  It measures 5.5" height x7.25" diameter at the top and weighs about 400 g.  Thank you
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Looks like Emmanuel Cooper's mark and style.

Thanks for your comments. The fisrt pic is of the base and the porcelain may not be that, it could be heavily glazed and painted. I had a look at Emmanuel Coopers work and stamp (there was me thinking it was an 'M' or a bird!) and I found some very similar bowls and markings so it does appear to be by him. So thank you very much for your time and efforts :)

Nice find

An Emmanuel Cooper teabowl that I sold for the second time recently.


The foot with mark.

A Domestic ware Emmanuel Cooper large bowl with the pottery mark he used then. Made twixt 1973-80. Pretty much bog standard for the era, not much presage of his later work!

This was on a teapot with the same yellow glaze, also attributed to Cooper

https://pin.it/1HGgXIO

Jason Wood has confirmed that the four Emmanuel Cooper lots (with oatmeal glaze, and a previously unrecorded Dc mark), coming up in the next Partidges sale were verified by David Horbury. So another mark to add to the list.

A new website devoted to Emmanuel Cooper. Books, Articles ETC.
https://www.emmanuelcooper.co.uk/post/new-website-section

studio-pots wrote:To be honest I've never had any interest in his work and never bought a piece even to sell on so this is all new to me. Don't think I'll be converted.

studio-pots wrote:An Emmanuel Cooper teabowl that I sold for the second time recently.

Potty wrote:

studio-pots wrote:To be honest I've never had any interest in his work and never bought a piece even to sell on so this is all new to me. Don't think I'll be converted.

studio-pots wrote:An Emmanuel Cooper teabowl that I sold for the second time recently.

In my defence "Potty" when I wrote what I did in 2015, I had forgotten that I had bought a piece probably 20 years before and sold it for around £30.

Then when it was offered back to me a couple of years ago in a deal for a little over double that amount I could hardly say no.