Help identifying signature on Raymor ceramic abstract fish plate
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Help identifying signature on Raymor ceramic abstract fish plate
Hi,
I bought this ceramic- well actually it's terracotta, plate with an abstract fish design on it. The seller said that it was "Raymor" but that the sticker had come off. Anyway, there is a signature on the front that looks kind of like it might be "Erik" or some Scandinavian name. I love this plate and would be ever so happy if anyone happens to know anything about it. Thanks!
I bought this ceramic- well actually it's terracotta, plate with an abstract fish design on it. The seller said that it was "Raymor" but that the sticker had come off. Anyway, there is a signature on the front that looks kind of like it might be "Erik" or some Scandinavian name. I love this plate and would be ever so happy if anyone happens to know anything about it. Thanks!
P.W.Modern- Number of posts : 7
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Re: Help identifying signature on Raymor ceramic abstract fish plate
Raymor were a company that commissioned and imported pieces of mostly Italian pottery into America so they didn't, as far as I know, make anything themselves. Your fish looks very 60s in style but not particularly Italian - I don't recognise it however. Are there any markings at all to the underside?
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20th Century Retro/Vintage Ceramics & Glass
Re: Help identifying signature on Raymor ceramic abstract fish plate
I know Raymor was largely a distributor of Italian pottery. I was saying that all the information I had was that it was sold as "Raymor" and it has this signature. I don't think they made anything themselves either. I'm sorry if I was not clear. There are no markings to the underside.
To me the signature looks like it could either be "Erik" or like that might be another letter in between the E and the r. Maybe "Eerik"? Or another possibility could be that the first letter is a W at an angle. I've wondered if there is a way that someone can look up the different potters/artists/ceramicists that sold their wares through Raymor around that time. I tried to look that up but did not come up with anything.
To me the signature looks like it could either be "Erik" or like that might be another letter in between the E and the r. Maybe "Eerik"? Or another possibility could be that the first letter is a W at an angle. I've wondered if there is a way that someone can look up the different potters/artists/ceramicists that sold their wares through Raymor around that time. I tried to look that up but did not come up with anything.
P.W.Modern- Number of posts : 7
Location : New Orleans
Registration date : 2009-03-24
Re: Help identifying signature on Raymor ceramic abstract fish plate
As far as I know there's little information publicly available about Raymor and the potteries they bought from - it's a slow learning curve for all of us basically. About the only thing I can say with any certainty about your dish is that stylistically it would date to the 1960s - I'm not convinced it's Italian personally.
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Text & photographs Pip Harris
Pips-Trip.co.uk
20th Century Retro/Vintage Ceramics & Glass
Re: Help identifying signature on Raymor ceramic abstract fish plate
I agree about it not looking Italian. I think the signature might be Scandinavian. I just found out that Raymor actually did import a lot of Scandinavian items in the post war period. Here's what I found...
http://www.answers.com/topic/raymor
http://www.answers.com/topic/raymor
P.W.Modern- Number of posts : 7
Location : New Orleans
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Re: Help identifying signature on Raymor ceramic abstract fish plate
I was wrong about Raymor not making anything themselves. As it turns out, the paragraph on answers.com says that after 1947 Raymor created ceramics,lighting and glass in it's own factory with many of the items being designed by the company's founder, Irving Richards himself.
P.W.Modern- Number of posts : 7
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