Winchcombe Pottery

Stoneware vase with wax-resist decoration, a bit different.

The finger marks on the Tustin do it for me!  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkZQXhEMC08

Firstly apologies for awful photo

Having read the information on Winchcombe on here and elsewhere I gather that this is pre c 1963 . It has signs of having been used for what was intended - cooking, as base has signs of burning.
BUT is it attributable to anyone ie Finch or Cardew. Could it just be standardware of the time. I found a very similar one on Google images, stating it is by Cardew but no mention as to how that conclusion was reached.

As ever I would be grateful for any thoughts





Thanks

It is a fairly straightforward traditional style of slip decoration that was used at Winchcombe over a long period.

In my opinion the decoration is a little stilted to be by Cardew and think the decoration was used more in the 1950s, so after he left Winchcombe.

To me it could possibly be by Ray Finch but equally by someone else and even if decorated by Ray it wasn't a "special" piece but just part of the regular production run.

Although people will attribute items such as this to make them more desirable, I think the honest answer is that it's a typical example of Winchcombe slipware. That ought to be enough to make it desirable in any case. It's a good honest dish.

THREE Ray Finch tea bowls

One from SP

TWO Winchcombe Beakers (CT/ST)

Hi everyone, I picked these up cups and saucers at a very nice price with out really looking at the backstamp - the stamp looks like Winchcombe but not having handled much Winchombe before I am not really sure of what they should look like, any advice much appreciated.

Yes, you're right.
If it had the dot in the lower right quadrant it would be by Ray Finch himself but looks like it's just the PW for standardware. Very nice, though :)

Showing off two large Ray Finch vases just acquired.  The taller one is 14.5 inches.  I guess they must have been made in very different periods at Winchcombe.



     

No dot in the usual place but it may have been made before Ray started using the dot.

Just picked up two large Winchombe items.

First a Ray Finch signed oatmeal charger, then a huge 20 inch Eddie Hopkins Vase also in an Oatmeal glaze. No idea when they got potted but I have an Invoice from 1997 to show the charger cost £38 and the vase £95. think prices have changed in 20 years. No idea of that invoice is from new though as the invoice is from a woman called Pamela not a company/shop. Ideas of age welcome.

Cheers

I think they are dated by impressed mark but hard to see. Photos don't do the lovely pots justice.

Winchcombe bottle jug with Donald Jones' mark

A small bottle vase to add to the blue one I got a while ago - both by Anne Whittlesey...

8.5 in high stoneware vase with brushwork.

Eddie Hoplins large dish.

Eddie Hopkins and Winchcombe mark on the above piece.

Winchcombe lidded jar. Unmarked but it came with the Ray Finch coffee pot and has the same surface

Eddie Hopkins obituary - he also worked at Appin Pottery; throwing pots in the early 70s that were sometimes decorated by Trudi Finch

http://www.interpretingceramics.com/issue009/articles/eddie_hopkins.htm

Hi just wanted to show this lovely little cream jug of Eddie Hopkins - Winchcombe pottery, he certainly was an excellent craftsman - love the deep colours and the finish




Not seen that many other pieces out there...

We found this Winchcombe butter dish - I love as it has a raw textural feel to it

Initially I thought that this mark was a Cadew, however on closer inspection it appears that the logo is "GP" or similar and not a CP as originally thought any ideas please? many thanks

Pat ( Patrick) Groom

Today's charity shop find: a lovely 2-pint jug by Patrick Groom, as clean and fresh as if it had just come out of the pottery. First time I've seen this mark with his initials above the WP monogram.