Details
A collection of Compton Pottery items in terracotta and plaster painted in colours, including: book ends, plaques, figures and vases, the majority with a preraphaelite theme, impressed factory marks (damages)
See illustration (49)
See illustration (49)
Further details
The Compton Pottery studio was set up in 1899 by Mary Watts as The Compton Art Potters Guild. Early pieces were moulded, but by 1920 this method was replaced by slip casting with later wares also coloured in tempera