Dartington Pottery

do you know who did design it?

kplandarch wrote:do you know who did design it?

Maybe Janice Tchalenko work.

Hinchcliffe & Barber and Dartington collaboration. Pastel pink and green and white coloured tableware. I'm assuming RC is the designer.

I know this large bowl (10-inch diameter) is Dartington, but I can't see this pattern on the Dartington thread on this forum. Neither can I make out the signature. Any help with identifying either would be much appreciated.
Thanks.

I can see the Dartington D and squiggles but doubt there's a signature.
A rare design, possibly a one off

Possibly one of the newer designs, after Grayshott took over. Could be a decorator’s monogram after the Dart mark but that won’t be a designer’s signature

Thanks, that's helpful. Now I look again at the base, I can see that some of the marks appear to be part of the pattern. Aside from the Dartington mark, the remainder appears to be a C and a W. It doesn't look like the usual Claire Woodall monogram, but given the thickness of the brush used, and the small area available (less than 3-inches diameter), that might not have been possible. But I guess it'll have to remain unknown.

you could contact the pottery

I'll give that a try. Thanks again.

Squared thrown vase with unusual pattern .
I found one other that had been auctioned and identified as Tchalenko.
Is that right and is there a name?
Light blues, red and Sandy yellow colours. Dart mark
Thank you!

It's not in the Tchalenko book, but she used those colours, and that shape of vase at Dartington, so probably yes.

Not sure what the "Tchalenko" suggestion is suppose to mean. Not that she might have decorated it, I assume?

She did decorate pots at Dartington but generally, she came up with designs for the paintresses

There is a Grayshott design that has a similar red square; it might be something new; post-merger with Grayshott Pottery

Thank you everyone.I’ll check out some more.,

dantheman wrote:She did decorate pots at Dartington but generally, she came up with designs for the paintresses

That's what I meant.

I wasn't arguing with what you said DD just the "auctioned and identified as Tchalenko", which suggested that it might be of more value than any other Dart Pottery vase/beaker with a similar pattern. Just because she might have said "let's uses these colours with an abstract pattern similar to this".

The Tchalenko attribution purely means that the auction from which the result was obtained did not know a lot of what he was talking about or was trying to sell it up for more than what it was!

Yes, I see plenty of that on eBay and mis-attributions. I really try to be accurate with descriptions as there’s trouble if I’m not! and I want people who buy the pots to be genuinely happy with what they’ve bought. Seems pretty likely that it was a pattern used very little that didn’t take off. For whatever reason.

3 large pieces of Dartington

Poppies design was probably one of their most popular ones.

dantheman wrote:



I have never seen any impressed mark other than dp and potter's monograms but then today I found this

Another one, with a page from the Modern Antiques exhibition pamphlet, 1996, London

Early Dartington jug

Thanks in advance!