Hornsea Pottery (E Yorks & Lancaster)

Hi,
Can anyone identify the name for this particular Clappison design please?

Thanks,
Bryn

Hi Bryn, your pepper pot is part of a cruet set consisting of a salt, pepper, lidded mustard pot and a matching dish for them all to sit on. It's a design by John Clappison called 'Alpine' and dates from 1960.

Hi,
Here's another retro type pepper pot that I recently picked up on my travels, could it be another Hornsea Clappison design please?
Thanks again,
Bryn

any markings on the base Bryn?

Hi Dan,
No markings I'm afraid but then there were no markings on the pepper pot I posted a month or so ago, that turned out be the Alpine design.
Bryn

Got it - actually I knew the name before I looked at the book but doubted myself!

It's definitely Hornsea, from 1963 and the design is called 'Cordon' - it's part of a cruet set as with your 'Alpine' pot. I'm fairly sure it's a Clappison design but I haven't found confirmation anywhere about that yet.

I read on the web that the entry for cordon in the Hornsea book is wrong?

Ah, I think I *might* know what they're referring to. In the book it says it's an 'onion' shaped set but Cordon isn't - the onion shaped cruets were 50s slipware items and quite a different shape from Cordon.

I wonder if this is the information that's wrong, rather than the 'Cordon' attribution itself.

the claim was made by TC

http://tigerchipsmeowseum.blogspot.com/2007_04_01_archive.html

The problem I have with that is that it doesn't say WHICH book (there are many), who it was that said it was 'wrong' or indeed what it is that's supposedly wrong.

The Hornsea book I have was written by Pauline Coyle with John Clappison's direct involvement. I still have Pauline's email addy I think so I'll email and ask her about it myself. Do one of you lot want to contact TC?

LOL very good Bryn!

With regard to your pot - we're not going to get a quick answer on the alleged error so, if I were you, I'd list it as Cordon from 1963 since that's what's in Pauline's book currently. When/if we find out it's incorrect then we can make it known here on the forum.

Cruet set circa 1960.

Yellow & white 'Summit' cruet set & sugar sifter (it also came in black & white, red & white) and dates from 1960-65.

http://www.hornseamuseum.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=48&Itemid=38

A very nice Hornsea slipware posy vase circa 1955 designed by John Clappison (unmarked).

http://www.thisishullandeastriding.co.uk/news/Decade-changed-world/article-655724-detail/article.html

More slipware circa 1955.

Pair of 'Impact' vases, circa 1963.

'Coastline' vase circa 1955. Shape by John Clappison, decoration by Colin Rawson.

I haven't been able to find out the range that this Hornsea vase came from but looking at the style and colour of the infilled glazed decoration it dates from the early to mid 1960s. Pattern number is 422. If anyone knows for sure the range name please let me know.

Any idea of the pattern name, and was this a Clappison design?

Hi Davee, yes it's a John Clappison design - a Specimen Vase (shape 389) designed in August 1960 and in production in 1961 - the flower patterns were inlaid in charcoal, terracotta and turquoise glazes (the photo link froze so I can't see the colour very well but I think yours is terracotta).

The patterns inlaid in charcoal with a maroon glaze inside.