Alan Caiger-Smith and apprentices, Aldermaston Pottery

A clip from the Michael Casson BBC series with Alan Caiger Smith discussing his pots. This is over 50 years old.

A second clip from Michael Casson's ART OF the potter BBC film. This one with Alan Caiger Smith doing Calligraphic decoration

From the catalogue of Alan Caiger Smith's end of career sale Mallam's 2007

There were some lovely pieces in Alan Caiger Smith's retirement sale in 2007. I went hoping for some bargains. Prices went through the roof sadly. Got nothing apart from the catalogue!  That first Cross for instance, went for £1300.

Revisiting this and it does look like an Aldermaston shape, and an AB monogram for Aldermaston and potter’s initial


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It’s Aldermaston Pottery. Looks like Ann Follet’s mark from the list of apprentices

By David Tipler.

Possibly by Harriet Coleridge

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Aldermaston Pottery's standard ware. but I don’t know which apprentice made it.

Green & white studio vase, 1970s style
Incised mark, JO, JC or JE maybe or…

By Mary O'Gorman. Trained at Aldermaston Pottery and then moved to Ireland

The colours did make me think Aldermaston. Do you think this would have been done when she was at Aldermaston or later in Ireland? I can see some pieces from Kilkenny are marked wither MARY O GORMAN impressed mark as well as her signature.

Seems to include the Aldermaston A plus OG in the mark, and one of the pottery's vase shapes (although she did carry on making them in Ireland), so I'd say made at Aldermaston.