Brannam Ware. C. H. Brannam, Barnstaple/Barum (Devon)

Brannam pot with slip and scraffito design of a man smoking a pipe.

http://www.studiopottery.com/cgi-bin/mp.cgi?item=123

I am hoping that someone can help with any information regarding this vase.

It is a hyacinth vase that features the Royal Barum Ware backstamp, but we are completely at a loss as to the date it was produced, the designer's name, etc. It would be so helpful if there were any catalogues to assist us, but we have already tried the museum (of Barnstaple & North Devon) three times without success.

Any help you can provide would be most welcome. Two photos are included that may help.

My gut feeling is that it is not very old but I am not an expert in Brannam wares.

I think it might well be the backstamp that is currently used so my guess is that it is no older than 1980.

Many thanks for your input. My own thoughts are something along those lines, but it's a pity the museum cannot confirm one way or the other.

Not sure why the post ended up in 'ID' when that's not the point of the question, but hopefully it can be moved back to the British Pottery forum?

small jug , chipped to hell but still nice , signed ch brannam and dated 1900

small puzzle jug

This fish jug bears the date for 1891 and is incised with the motto, “From Mother Earth I took my Birth – Then formed a Jug by Man – And now stand here filled with good cheer – Taste of me if you can”.

Fish Mouth jug By Frederick Bowden

Signed FB , Ch brannam , barum 1899.

Sgraffito arts & crafts fish design

Small Vase , CH Brannam , N Devon , Made for Liberty & Co

I recently bought a mixed lot of studio pottery. The one here is a large earthenware vase, height 12 inches. The body looks like Torquayware. Decorated with applied slip, very raised chestnut slip on the branches. Gloss glaze. There is an indistinct stamp on the base and another that looks like 'Made in England'. I would be most interested to learn who made it.
Thanks Pete

The vase is a Baron Barnum or Barnum Barnstaple piece of Pottery. Probably from the 1920s. They did some lovely mottoware and sgraffito and slip-decorated pieces in the late Victorian period, but the pottery was running out of steam and amalgamating with some of it's local competitors by this stage.

oops, typo. Meant to type Brannam, not Barnum.

ie, C.H.Brannam, Barnstaple.

Nice little owl jug , little chip on foot but nice just the same

Hello all, I was wondering if anybody knew anything else on this specific piece.

The bottom reads Brannam 1895 / 1893? and some people have speculated that it might have
been used as an inkwell.

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- Thanks Teatai!

Very nice. Rare piece. I agree, probably an inkwell. Signed on base C.H. Brannam Barum, with date.

Potted biography of the company here:

http://www.studiopottery.com/cgi-bin/mp.cgi?item=123

It does resemble the style of work produced by the Baron pottery that was established in Barnstaple in 1895 and remained there until the late 1930s. That pottery was started by William Leonard Baron, who had been the chief designer at Brannam for around 10 years up until 1893............ so, although not initialled on the base I very much suspect that it is a William Baron designed piece.

           

Bought this weekend in Bideford as I was in the area on holiday so looked in on the Pottery Festival.

Ch Brannam, Barum by Frederick Bowden dated 1906. 18cm high. Small areas of repair - photos don't give the true colour