Sir Edmund Elton (1846-1920) was a self taught artist-potter who initial decorated pots thrown for him by George Masters. Elton soon taught himself to pot and designed a special potters wheels which enabled him to decorate by incising and also trailing slip. In 1902 he began experimenting with metalic glazes and this distinctive crackled glaze was the by product of firing liquid platinum over a crackled base glaze.