Unusual mug marked Oxford Gallery 2000 - Philomena Pretsell
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Johners2000- Number of posts : 500
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Re: Unusual mug marked Oxford Gallery 2000 - Philomena Pretsell
that gold decoration is really something
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Re: Unusual mug marked Oxford Gallery 2000 - Philomena Pretsell
When did the Oxford Ceramics Gallery open? Maybe they commissioned someone to make a set of mugs to mark the occasion. Worth contacting them to ask.
http://www.oxfordceramics.com/
http://www.oxfordceramics.com/
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Re: Unusual mug marked Oxford Gallery 2000 - Philomena Pretsell
Just sent them an email. Not sure I'd like to drink my Darjeeling out of it!
Johners2000- Number of posts : 500
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Re: Unusual mug marked Oxford Gallery 2000 - Philomena Pretsell
The present Oxford Ceramics gallery was not around in 2000. But there was an earlier incarnation of a prestigious Oxford studio pottery gallery which ran through the 90's and up to somewhere around 2005 or so, when it closed on the death of the owner. That owner's collection is now in the Ashmolean Museum
So this is a millennial mug from that gallery, which was very important studio gallery in its day.
So this is a millennial mug from that gallery, which was very important studio gallery in its day.
philpot- Number of posts : 6724
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Re: Unusual mug marked Oxford Gallery 2000 - Philomena Pretsell
That's very interesting - I wonder who made it for the Gallery.
Johners2000- Number of posts : 500
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Re: Unusual mug marked Oxford Gallery 2000 - Philomena Pretsell
I'm thinking this might be be by Philomena Pretsell?
Johners2000- Number of posts : 500
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Re: Unusual mug marked Oxford Gallery 2000 - Philomena Pretsell
I would have thought someone more local. And a hand builder
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Re: Unusual mug marked Oxford Gallery 2000 - Philomena Pretsell
This looks very similar in style… it's the gold and the use of photographs. The mug I have has a photograph of a woman inside - you can just see it on the last photo I posted.
http://www.studiopottery.co.uk/images/Philomena/Pretsell/8632
http://www.studiopottery.co.uk/images/Philomena/Pretsell/8632
Johners2000- Number of posts : 500
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Re: Unusual mug marked Oxford Gallery 2000 - Philomena Pretsell
I emailed Philomena Pretsell and she has confirmed it is by her. She was commissioned in 2000 to make between 10-20 of these for a Gallery in Oxford. I have asked her which gallery and who the owner was.
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