Lotus Pottery (Devon) Michael & Elizabeth Skipwith

Given the amount of Lotus pottery still around (there are 89 pieces for sale on Ebay at this precise moment) its production must have been on a much greater scale than that just a husband and wife. Always well made, and excellent for the Devon tourist souvenir trade, of which was still big business in the late 50's and through to the early 70's.

We have had this Michael Skipworth Lots Pottery  vase for well over 20 years. Its an awkward looking fingy, but boy oh boy is it functional. The top is very unusual, hardly ever seen anything quite like it. But it makes at absolutely superb for displaying large bunches of flowers. They can splay much for widely than the normal vase, which makes an bunch, a gorgeous display,

Stoke Gabriel near Totnes. They actually did quite a wide range of pottery apart from the ubiquitous Green stuff. Bang in the middle of a tourist area when people still holidayed in this country exstensively. You produced what sold to the tourists, and tried a good deal of things.

I know I asked for help identifying this a while back.
I just had another look and realised it was Lotus Pottery, Stoke Gabriel - Elizabeth & Michael Skipworth.
I sometimes see unusual things by them locally.
I couldn’t join it onto the thread as I can’t access my posts before Jan 2019 for some reason.
( or maybe it’s already been identified and moved and my memory has got way worse!)