IB or LB mark, ENGLAND - Richard Jenkins, Boscean Pottery

Need help identifying the potters marks on this jug . The style and glaze look familiar but just cant place it .

Looks like a Leach St Ives one to me

That was my first thought but there is no Leach pottery mark and I cant find anyone from that pottery with these initials . I have searched on http://www.studiopottery.com/ and through all the known Leach potters to no avail .

I suspect it's one of the St Ives associate potters. The England stamp looks very like one on Leach standard ware.
Could be a PB mark; Im wondering if Paul Barron was ever at St Ives?

......Yes, he was one of Bernard Leach's students.

Paul Barron was a student at the RCA of Staite Murray and was never at St. Ives.

It does look very Leach Pottery though, although I accept not made there.

This was where I found it, SP. says he was Leach's student before going to the RCA

http://www.csc.ucreative.ac.uk/index.cfm?articleid=20054

I think you've mis-read it, although to be fair it is a little confusing. It is saying that Norah was " a talented student of Bernard Leach's."

also looks like Boscean Pottery,Scott Marshall? mark

http://www.studiopottery.com/cgi-bin/pp.cgi?item=181

Yes, well spotted............... and Scott worked at the Leach Pottery with Uncle Bill from 1951 to 1961.

Yes Definitely looks right to me . Thank you very much . I have  other Scott Marshall pieces but not with this mark on them . one a coffee pot is totaly unmarked and the other a large jug has an SM mark . I also have a beautifull Bill Marshall teapot with cane handle .

So, to confirm, this is St Ives ? - mark difficult to read other then ENGLAND

   tiny mug

No, it's nothing to do with the Leach Pottery.

Not a shape made there plus the handle is not in the correct place for them and the mark is incorrect.

lindylou08 wrote:So, to confirm, this is St Ives ? - mark difficult to read other then ENGLAND

   tiny mug

Boscean Pottery

I'll split it from the Leach St Ives thread

Saying it was "nothing to do with the Leach Pottery" above isn't entirely true as Scott Marshall, who started the Boscean Pottery, was an apprentice there. Also Richard Jenkins, who was his partner at Boscean, was at the Leach Pottery for a time as well (1959 -1961).

Looks like he took one of their England stamps with him :)

To add, taken over by Jacob Bodilly in 2008, but has now creased operation after Jacob moved on.

Jacob Bodilly has just said that this mark is not Boscean Pottery; they did not mark their pots, although Scott Marshall marked some of his SM.
Edited to say: However, it’s now believed to be Richard Jenkins’ mark; well before Bodilly’s time at the pottery .


it would be nice to compare Marshall's work with this ones marked IB and ENGLAND

Just seen another one. I think it could be Richard Jenkins’ mark from when he joined Marshall at the pottery. Looks very like an R mark and back to front J

I also have a small pot with a similar mark.  Can anyone help?

I’ve moved your ID request to it’s own thread. If it’s IDed and by the same potter then we’ll merge them again and move the thread into the Studio Pottery section

Not quite right for Paul Barron

https://www.20thcenturyforum.com/t24558-paul-barron

Or Branscombe Pottery, maybe

https://www.20thcenturyforum.com/t11849-slipware-charger-branscombe-pottery#167936

I think it's Richard Jenkins' Boscean Pottery; the mark is more like an IB than just a B

https://www.20thcenturyforum.com/t17964-jug-with-ib-or-lb-mark-england-richard-jenkins-boscean-pottery