Ambleside Pottery

now now you two! If you are going to squabble about it, I will buy the bird as I live in the correct part of Berkshire

Well as the saying goes all is fair in Love, War and pottery buying

I am the only local with a fair Cook collection as posted

I'm still actually sulking about a piece of Scandi last month - I've waited years for one to come up and it sat a £20 for ages and I was outbid even though I bid double what the last one went for and it went to USA. You can tell because the postage changed to US.

Thank you all for your interest - I am away for a few weeks and will have a think about what I will do about the bird when I am back

or just PM the forum member you like best

Oh! and have a lovely trip

Latest addition to my personal collection of Eva Mackay Ambleside pottery.Eva had an interesting relationship with George Cook which is why I collect her work along with the hand painted output and early Cook.

Wonderful group of Ambleside slipware from a private source showing some really nice pieces.There are very distinctive.The lamp base carries the rare sticker from the Ambleside pottery.And 4 different sizes of the same shape vase….happy days.

What is you opinion of the slipware? I have to say it is not my favorite form his work

I really like it and it’s mostly early……and Eva Mackay did quite a bit I believe…It’s all part of the story and evolution of Cook and the pottery….I meant to add that I read a post about the “Puritans” design on this thread….that design was created by a Mr Price I cannot think of his first name….

You should at least writ your info all down - no one else knows all this.

I’m thinking of doing something

There's a video (unfortunately no sound) of George Cook at work on the new BBC rewind service. I thought people may be interested.
https://discover.bbcrewind.co.uk/asset/600582050265c00027a01935

I cant believe he stacked those four pots vertically!

Had to chuckle at the 'ConteNt' warning at the start of that. REMEMBER, WHAT YOU ARE WATCHING IS PART OF THE PAST....

Where is the book Brian? Its been nearly two months?

Strange whale(?) eating a fish design - unsigned

2 months……your a hard task master …..nice vase I have sold similar piece with that colour background but that’s a new design which is really nice….it doesn’t need a mark as it’s signed Ambleside “cook” all over it….

September then?  

For the record and if any more pop up


There is a stenciled Museum number on the base. Provenance:  The Derbyshire Museums Service, which from 1936 to about 1980 built a collection of art and other items for mobile use in schools and colleges throughout Derbyshire. The collection was curated for many years by Barbara Winstanley, and it was in the 1960s that it appears that it was adding studio pottery to its catalogue.

My newest addition and a piece I’m delighted to have…..the slipware fish are really well executed and the piece as a whole is really nice….Cook period 1948/68 but incised for Ambleside only.

I would never have recognised it if the mark was not there but it does say 50s to me. I wonder if people in the future will be able to say that there was a recognisable 'style' for the 2020s or 1990s I doubt it.