Fosters Studio Pottery Co.

I don't like the Fosters Honeycomb design pottery. But love there studio pottery. I remember when the pottery was at West Tolgus next to Redruth Secondary School, now Tesco Garage. Here are a couple of pieces in my collection, a lovely Tankard with hand coloured fish design, and a Cornish Pixie sitting beside a log cart.

That is a lovely tankard. It's a shame they mostly did the boring old honeycombe glaze.

Totally agree. I have included more and the marks in separate pictures, files to big to all load at one time. I once lived at Illogan, near Redruth, and have a couple of friends who used to work at the pottery.

I think their best item was the Koala money box, in various hues of honeycmbe glaze. I have a treacle brown one on my desk.

https://www.20thcenturyforum.com/t11298-fosters-pottery?highlight=fosters

If it hadn't had that Fosters stamp on the base Id have said Continental - Ernestine or Bitossi. Apparently there may have been some collaboration with Poole.

There was a Studio Pottery branch of Fosters (some examples in the Forum) but I don't know who the potters were - they would have been employees of the company; throwers and decorators. I think there was a collaboration with Poole Pottery. The glaze colours would point to a 70s date

philpot wrote:Fosters was not a studio pottery. They were more or less a standard pottery where the potters did not do individual work. Nice bright piece though. Early 70's?

Fosters pottery was involved in handmade studio pottery. From my research Fosters may have acquired studio potters from outside of the factory to produce pots for them, for what I have discovered it seems mostly commissioned pieces. Some have personal potters marks but no record of who potted them, I have included some pictures of a pot all hand thrown red earthenware with no personal mark on this one just the fosters stamped mark.