Adam Partridge studio ceramics auctions

Hi philpot, When i said the 'best' i was referring to what was best for the auction house in monetary terms and not necessarily the quality of the goods on offer although the two often go hand in hand . How he managed to squeeze this lot into a small flat baffles me ,it's not really collecting but just hoarding and it's hard to imagine how any normal person could or want to live like this.

One wonders how much got damaged! Yhings happen when you get that much stuff. I doubt if he was married. Wives tend to lonit the collecting!

He doesn't appear to have been married ,so nobody to keep him in check, he apparently sold his house and moved into the flat, partly to fund his collecting but also to move closer to a Buddhist centre, i think this would seem quite extreme for most people.

Michael Evans, as he was, when I first met him had lived in Sandwich in Kent but was in the Bethnal Green flat near to the London Buddhist Centre when he first came along to the Harlequin Gallery. Dayabandhu was the name that he took when he became a "fully fledged" Buddhist during the time that I knew him. I liked him very much and he took my comments that I thought Buddhists had to give up all worldly possessions in the spirit that it was said. He often visited with friends including Martin Pearce, whose work is included in the auction, and we both would rib him about keeping his collection in check but to no avail.

Inside the flat little floor space was available but there were "walkways" with large items by Charles Bound and others acting as walls to protect damage to smaller items.

I think we all walk that fine walk between 'collecting' and obsession? Especially if we have no wife/husband to curb us!
Is this an Estate sale though? It looks like it, given the rather low estimates.

I wondered about that as he had apparently been suffering with vascular dementia for many years but i am not sure if he is still around. There has been a 3 year gap between this sale and the first part.

https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/adampartridge/catalogue-id-adam-p10335

The results of the January 5th Adam Partridge Michael Evans auction. Looks like a good sale results wise. Most sold within estimate, with a few bits and pieces of the higher quality items going for more.
A studio potter collector's dream sale! If I still had the itch, and the space. I would have been very tempted. There were a lot of nice low/mid range pieces which went at very attractive prices. Anybody buy anything nice

I watched the sale online, and was logged in to bid but it didn’t quite move me. As you said, some very attractive prices! I don’t live nearby so the faff of sorting collection / paying a fortune for postage also puts me off a bit

Distance...Aye there's the rub! With most of major studio pottery auctions being in the South of the country, Adam Partridge is inconvenient to get to. There is not much hotel accommodation around Macclesfield either.

Adam Partridge's latest offering, a pleasant but very ordinary mid range sale, there are few heavy weights present. A nice Emmanuel Cooper 'mug', a John Ward piece which grabbed my attention , also another 50 or so lots of Jim Malone ,this makes hundreds over the last few years, where do they all go?, (my wife refers to Malone as that obnoxious man), https://auctions.adampartridge.co.uk/auction/search/?au=66

It seems as though the last one was only yesterday! Okay it is not the Very top end. But after all, that is only a small fraction of the market. But for the average studio pottery collector, from the beginner to the veteran there is a fabulous selection of range and choice in depth. These Adam partridge sales are surely now the top go to choice of studio pottery collectors. Just viewing them is an experience.
They have also greatly improved their presentation. Each piece has many high resolution photos of excellent quality.
A load of Jim Malone again. Somewhat of an overdose! But....He is still one of the very top potters of his generation. These pieces are an excellent chance for people to build up a large collection of his at a bargain price. I know if I was still collecting, I would be very interested. Mind you, the people who bought Jim Malone from Goldmark must be feeling very green at the gills!

Jim Malone might be a good leach type potter but he sets himself up as some sort of pottery 'Guru', the main arbiter of good taste and insults people that dare to disagree with him, my wife is on the 'British studio pottery Facebook' where she says members have been called ignorant and stupid when they like things other than his type of pots. Getting back to the sale i agree that the presentation is extremely good, in fact far better than most others including Bonhams etc . In some ways this sale is better than the usual as he seems to have dropped many of the really low priced items and the range across the middle ground is of good quality.

The Wally Keeler cup and saucer is anything but ordinary. I love it

hi dantheman, 'Ordinary' was probably a wrongly chosen word to use in my post, i just viewed the keeler piece and i agree a very unusual and far from ordinary piece.

I had not been aware that Walter keeler had made such avant-garde pieces in earthenware (lot610) ,after searching i found a few other pieces, i am not really a fan of his salt glaze pots but this sculptural earthenware piece really appeals and i think a set shown together would look stunning.

I wasn’t impressed with Malone’s pots at one of the Fairs last year. He might have been a good thrower in his younger days but now they're like bricks, unimaginative, and he’s relying on the glaze to cover up the faults. If this load at Partridges are his early stuff then they wont disappoint. But if they’re later stuff then I’d avoid it.

I bought some Malone from the previous sale - I'm very pleased with it and will be eyeing up some from the current AP sale. Was it on here that members were suggesting that it mainly all comes from JM? It certainly seems like a bit of a clear out, and most pieces have a recent feel to them. All in all a good sale to build the collection up!

Incidentally, I bought an art work from the AP Harry Ousey Studio sale last year, and it seems like a fair few had previously been in the hands of Goldmark. Mine is beautifully framed, and has all the Goldmark labels to verso (including an astonishing price tag). I think they definitely had a clear out!

Jim Malone is retiring. The many lots here, and in previous sales are come from his own pots at his house and pottery. Hence, they might well come from a very broad period of his making.
Goldmark are a specialist upmarket Art dealers in Upminster, Rutland. They pioneered treating studio pottery like the best artworks. They have been brilliant at marketing but their profit margins reflect the high end art industry They have a fascinating webite

Goldmark have a lot of Jim Malone! If you are a big fan, the monographs are well worth buying, and there is also a film in there somewhere.
https://www.goldmarkart.com/search?q=jim+malonw&options%5Bprefix%5D=last

https://auctions.adampartridge.co.uk/auction/search/?au=66
Results of today's Studio party auction. The only really big number was the very unusual coloured John Ward £18500. A rather quiet auction really. Most went well within estimate, and the estimates were quite modest. A bread and butter auction!
A the start of the auction I thought I hear something from Adam Patridge about their ceramic expert Jason Woods leaving them. Not too sure whether I heard right tho. He has been the driving force behind these studio pottery auction at Adam Partridge for nearly a decade,

I didn't watch all the sale as i was only interested in a couple of pieces, i am not sure about Jason Woods ,i haven't heard anything about his leaving and i think Partridge would find it hard to replace him, i will ask my wife to look on Facebook.