Midwinter Pottery

1955 Midwinter (Staffordshire) 'Nature Study' Stylecraft/Fashion Shape Lidded Vegetable Dish by Terence Conran.

'Spanish Garden' by Jessie Tait

1960 - 'Cassandra' coffee pot on the Fashion shape - designer not known.

Various items from the 1954 'Riviera' range by Hugh Casson.

c: 1954 'Primavera' by Jessie Tait.

Jessie Tait design 'Fiesta' circa 1953 on a Stylecraft shape vegetable tureen.

Jessie Tait 'Hollywood' pattern Fashion shape veg tureen, circa 1955.

Hugh Casson design 'Cannes' circa 1955 on a Fashion shape vegetable tureen.

a Riviera 'TV set' (Hugh Casson, 1950s) - I guess this is so you can have a cup of tea and some bickies without needing a plate sorta thing.

Jessie Taite Homespun pattern

Late 50's I think. Not one of the most desirable patterns, but I got given rather a lot of it

I have collected a fair number of Midwinter designs over the years but this one has always stumped me.
It's a sauce boat (obviously) with a nice matching tricorn plate in bright red design with the usual Midwinter
stamp to the base, but I have never found anything like it in any of the Midwinter books and the pattern name
and designer remain a mystery.
Anyone else seen a piece in the same pattern??
This is one for Pip!!

Jessie Tait Mexicana

Jessie Tait Homespun barrel

Stylecraft Fashion Tableware, 6 cups and saucers, milk jug and sugar bowl.

Ruby Mist Preserve Pot.

Rosemarie Tea Strainer Stand

Midwintwinter pot or lidded jar - blue decoration with striped band to middle - base marked midwinter Style Craft Classic Shape 3-64 - painted decorators marks 'V MDW' long shot but is that initials for Eve Midwinter or not - or is this just a home painted piece?

Adam

An interesting plate that from the details on the back seems to have been a trial piece.

So, this is a Midwinter Fashion Shape plate, with a really nice design applied as a transfer over the glaze. It's not a produced Midwinter design, as far as I know. Anyone recognise the pattern from elsewhere?

It does look like a design that I've seen but I can't place it at the moment. In fact it looks a little more like a pre-War design that one contemporary with the plate.

It would be good to see a picture of the reverse.

Yes, I know what you mean about the design. The reverse says Midwinter Stylecraft Staffordshire England Fashion Shape 1-59. It's the 1959 style backstamp. There's also a mark that looks like 01, and that's on top of the glaze. Interestingly I've come across someone who has an Empire Ware jug featuring the same pattern, again a transfer on top of the glaze. Seems odd that someone should be trialling a kind of art deco pattern on blanks from two different potteries in the 50s! Unless, they were both some kind of training exercise and someone had a batch of the transfers lying around.