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Bodley & Harrold ceramic mark. The business continued to expand, and came to occupy three sites. [11] The Hill Top Pottery in Burslem was a legacy of Samuel Alcock. It came via Alcock & Diggory to Bodley & Diggory in 1870, and to E. F. Bodley & Co. in 1871. [12] Thomas Richard Diggory, partner for a short time with Bodley, was declared bankrupt ...
During the sixth to the eighth centuries, pottery was handmade locally and fired in a bonfire. Common pottery fabrics consisted of clay tempered with sand or shell, or a mix of sand and shell. Pottery forms were common items used for cooking and storage, and were undecorated or decorated simply with incised lines.
Pottery from the United Kingdom, vessels and other objects made from clay and other ceramic materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard, durable form. Major types include earthenware , stoneware and porcelain .
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Joseph Glass (fl. 1670 [1]-1703 [2] at least) was a potter, working in Hanley, in the Staffordshire Potteries, England. [3] He worked in slipware, and is one of the first potters known to have signed and dated his work.
Pottery making was briefly resurrected under The Bovey Pottery Company Limited in 1994 by House of Marbles, who occupy the site in the present day. New products were in the style of 1930s Dartmoor Ware but the venture only lasted for six years until 1999 when it was decided to focus on the other more profitable industries of games and glass.
His pottery marks dating from 1953 include his initials, his name and the outline of a fish. [3] As an avant-garde ceramic artist and clay sculptor he began teaching at Bath Academy of Art in 1957, the same year in which his work was shown at the Victoria and Albert Museum. [1] Wright's work has been acquired by several museums around the world.