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New Ways - Gray's Pottery back-stamp featuring the Herrick lion motif for 1924 Empire Exhibition Wembley
HAND-PAINTED CERAMIC WARE OF THE 1920S AND 1930S
Gray’s Pottery, formerly known as AE Gray Ltd, was founded by AE Gray (1883–1978) in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, with the purpose of manufacturing hand-painted pottery ware. In order to do this, Gray had retained the services of talented designers such as Susie Cooper and Phoebe Stabler. Stabler created hand-painted designs for Ashtead Potters and for Poole Pottery as well as for Royal Doulton.
In 1959 when Gray died, the business was taken over by Susan Cooper-Willis, the daughter of architect Sir Clough Williams-Ellis. She renamed the firm Portmeirion Pottery after the Welsh village created by her father in Italianate style. It was the first to market new designs in a way aimed at filling a niche in their customers’ lifestyle. Source New Ways: The Founding of Modernism
New Ways - Gray's Pottery back-stamp featuring the Herrick lion motif for 1924 Empire Exhibition Wembley
HAND-PAINTED CERAMIC WARE OF THE 1920S AND 1930S
Gray’s Pottery, formerly known as AE Gray Ltd, was founded by AE Gray (1883–1978) in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, with the purpose of manufacturing hand-painted pottery ware. In order to do this, Gray had retained the services of talented designers such as Susie Cooper and Phoebe Stabler. Stabler created hand-painted designs for Ashtead Potters and for Poole Pottery as well as for Royal Doulton.
In 1959 when Gray died, the business was taken over by Susan Cooper-Willis, the daughter of architect Sir Clough Williams-Ellis. She renamed the firm Portmeirion Pottery after the Welsh village created by her father in Italianate style. It was the first to market new designs in a way aimed at filling a niche in their customers’ lifestyle. Source New Ways: The Founding of Modernism