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Post by MCWebs May 2nd 2019, 6:17 pm

Not the most eye-catching of pots but holes are interesting and it's quite well potted - Has anyone seen the mark before?? is it AD or ADP??

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Post by philpot May 2nd 2019, 6:57 pm

Certainly nothing ghastly about it. Its very well potted. However, it does have that certain 'look' of a good deal of well-potted stuff that came out of the 70's boom in studio pottery.
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Post by NaomiM May 2nd 2019, 7:19 pm

By Wilfrid Norton. Not much biographical info around. This was from Marshall Coleman’s blog:

Wilfrid Norton, a figurative ceramist inspired by Anthroposophy, who was well-known in the 1930s and ran the pottery department at Camberwell school of art, but who is now forgotten.

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Post by MCWebs May 2nd 2019, 7:41 pm

I wish it was by Wilfred Norton but I'm pretty sure that's not the mark N..
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Post by MCWebs May 2nd 2019, 7:43 pm

It's also not the quality of his work either - Think he's probably turning in his grave right now...
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Post by NaomiM May 2nd 2019, 7:49 pm

I will have to check my notes but there was a similar, pierced vase on eBay a few months ago, unattributed, and with a similar bow type mark, which I got very excited about, thinking it was by George Jouve but the mark was far closer to that of Wilfrid Norton

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Post by MCWebs May 2nd 2019, 8:00 pm

You identified one of my first pots as a Wilfred Norton quite a way back N. that oozed quality and marks are more angulated not round and they're joined, this one, its, well its a bit lame and mark is too rounded
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Post by MCWebs May 2nd 2019, 9:14 pm

looks a bit like the

Jean Tolkovsky - SP mark UJ mark AJ mark ???

but not like her modern sculptural pieces??

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Post by NaomiM October 14th 2021, 1:37 pm

I believe it's by Dorothy Annan. There's a piece of hers in the latest Adam Partridge auction with correspondence between her and Godden about her mark

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Post by slopingsteve April 21st 2023, 10:51 pm

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This looks like the same mark but the style is very different
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Post by Koola November 11th 2024, 12:25 pm

Hi Everyone
Found this lovely little posy vase and was wandering if anyone recognises the maker. Thanks

Dorothy Annan Posy_v11
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Post by denbydump November 11th 2024, 12:50 pm

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Post by Koola November 11th 2024, 1:03 pm

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Post by Koola November 11th 2024, 5:25 pm


I can't seem to find much about Dorothy Annan's pottery except for her ceramic wall art in the Barbican.
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Post by Koola November 13th 2024, 2:38 pm

I'm trying to find out more on Dorothy Annan's studio pottery. Internet searches have come up with mostly info about her ceramic murals in the Barbican but little, to nothing, on her pottery pieces. I am fortunate to own one of her pieces, pictured below but have no idea of whether it is rare or one of many?
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Post by NaomiM November 13th 2024, 6:02 pm

She's not in the marks book. Bio via Adam Partridge Auctions

DOROTHY ANNAN (1908-1983), Potting in London from the 1950s
Annan was a painter, potter and mural artist. She became interested in ceramics in about 1949 and trained part time at the Central School in London for three years and afterwards sold through Heal and Sons and Primavera. She then applied her knowledge of ceramics to tiled murals and mosaics.

Wiki page etc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Annan
https://artuk.org/discover/artists/annan-dorothy-19081983

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