Aldermaston Pottery

Aldermaston Pottery
Private
Industry Ceramics
Genre Studio pottery
Fate Dissolved
Founded 1955
Founder Alan Caiger-Smith
Defunct 2006
Headquarters Aldermaston, Berkshire, UK
Key people
 See #Potters
Products Tin-glazed earthenware
Aldermaston Pottery plaque.
A vase by Andrew Hazelden.

Aldermaston Pottery was a pottery located in the Berkshire village of Aldermaston, England. It was founded in 1955 by Alan Caiger-Smith and was known for its tin-glaze pottery and particularly its lustre ware.[1][2] Alan Caiger-Smith worked with almost sixty assistants over a period of forty years at the Pottery; the first, Geoffrey Eastop, joined him in 1956, a year after the pottery started.[3]

In 1965, the pottery was the subject of a television documentary produced by Michael Darlow.[4]

The pottery scaled back its production in June 1993 when Caiger-Smith partially retired and stopped hiring assistants.[5][6] It continued to operated commercially until it was sold in 2006, and the building has now been converted into a private dwelling.

Reading Museum has an extensive collection of Aldermaston pottery by Caiger-Smith that is displayed in its Atrium gallery.

Potters

References

  1. ↑ "Aldermaston Pottery". Studio Pottery. Retrieved 4 July 2010.
  2. ↑ "Anne Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair". The Times. 1 May 2007. Retrieved 4 July 2010.
  3. ↑ "Geoffrey Eastop: An artist's life in pots". Newbury Weekly News (UK). 15 January 2015. pp. 44–45.
  4. ↑ "Aldermaston Pottery". Film & TV Database. British Film Institute. Retrieved 4 July 2010.
  5. ↑ "Caiger-Smith, Alan". The Grove Dictionary of Art. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 4 July 2010.
  6. ↑ Tiziana. "Gubbio honors Alan Caiger-Smith". That's Arte. Retrieved 4 July 2010.
  7. ↑ "Julian Bellmont". Studio Pottery. Retrieved 29 July 2010.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Pottery". MOHAMED HAMID. Retrieved 4 July 2010.
  9. ↑ "Myra McDonnell Biography". Art Workers Guild. Retrieved 4 July 2010.
  10. ↑ Boyer, Angie. "Laurence McGowan". craft&design. Craftsman Magazine. Retrieved 4 July 2010.
  11. ↑ "Simon Rich - Ceramic Designer". Simon Rich. Retrieved 4 July 2010.

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