Tales of the goings on at Hollyford Pottery, near the tiny village of Stockleigh English in Devon, England
Tuesday 14 October 2008
Medieval English Pottery
This is one of my favourite books. I pulled it off the shelf last week, the first time in a while and got all excited again about medieval pots. Recently I've been looking a lot more at North Devon slipware, particularly the harvest jugs. Seeing these pictures again has certainly influenced the pots that I've made this week.
Apologies for the bad snapshots.
There's a pot in this book that is one of the most important of my pot-making life. It's a jug in the Victoria and Albert Museum, I saw twenty four years ago when I was a student. It completely blew me away and dictated the direction of my student work from then on. I haven't put a picture on of the pot, I may save it until I get brave enough to show one of my dodgy student pieces from all those years ago.
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yes, great pots alright, and wonderful to think of the straight line from you back into time
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