another possible devon pot - Penrith Pottery

Something else from the attic to give to family but I am not seeing anything similar with no markings anywhere. I thought of Denby because of the blue (I am British born and bred but 50 years in the USA!) but they don't seem to have been decorated like this. Thanks for any help. I am tagging each item once I find out anything.

It looks like Wetheriggs, Penrith pottery design tho I’m not sure if the clay body is right.

Thanks. I wondered the same but the Penrith pottery I saw had Penrith clearly marked albeit on a similar glazed base.

It’s Penrith …..likely Schofield…….the impressed marks are often very light and only leave the slightest impression sometimes….and with the glazed bottom it just disappears….

I am too new to put a link in a post but there is a brown pot on a book of Wetheriggs by Barbara Blenkinshipp (Ebay UK item 305716177946 that looks very similar in design to mine and by looking at all the pots on ebay uk I found one "unsigned' that the seller said was definitely Wetheriggs (not that it looked like mine at all but I figured that as you say often the impression does not take well). (I think I can post a photo of the book here though)

Thanks for your comment. Is Schofield a Penrith pottery or a potter's name?

The Schofield family were one of the owners of the pottery I believe and hence Penrith pottery carries the Schofield stamp….Thorburn was another…..I see shed loads of it in the lakes….but my memory of the intricacies of the pottery are a little faded now…..

Thank you so much potteryman!. I see that Scofield died in 1917 but presumably the pots designed in his time could have been made after that?

It seems that the pottery closed after 2003 and before 2006 so presumably if I am correct in thinking that pottery in Scofield's time would have been continued mine would have been made before 2006. I have no idea how and where I got it - maybe on our biennial trips to the UK. Anyway a nice story to tell a grandchild who gets it!

Your piece is earlier then any of the modern pieces…..glazed bases are generally earlier….modern Penrith pottery is unglazed under the base…..

Have a look at our thread on Wetheriggs pottery
https://www.20thcenturyforum.com/t12315-wetheriggs-pottery-penrith?highlight=wetheriggs

It sounds like you have a fascinating collection of Country pottery from small potteries that survived after WW2. There are not many of them. It sounds like they would also have been bought in the 1950's/6-'s as souvenir items from the places that the buyers visited. Penrith...The Lake district. Dartmouth...South Devon. Both very big tourist areas. Back then there wqs no vast international tourist travel. Tourism and such souvenirs were big business.
They are not going to be worth a lot. But what you do have, is a rare collection of the personal holiday memories of the people who collected these. A rare and beautiful blessing!