Re: Robin Welch

by **philpot** Tue Oct 27, 2020 9:07 am

An interesting colour in a small jollied bowl with the round mark.

by **studio-pots** Tue Oct 27, 2020 9:33 am

Never seen that type of decoration before, philpot, so I imagine it wasn't popular at the time.

by **philpot** Wed Jan 20, 2021 3:43 pm

This is Robin Welch holding one of the very first pieces of ceramics he made With a CLOSE UP PHOTO OF IT.

by **philpot** Wed Jan 20, 2021 3:45 pm

by **philpot** Wed Jan 20, 2021 3:48 pm

Robin Welch in his studio
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by **philpot** Sun Jan 31, 2021 3:10 pm

A leaflet on the domestic Jollies pots and a photo of the stockroom.

by **NaomiM** Mon Mar 08, 2021 7:52 pm

Commemorative mug, Bristol Guild 1908-1975

by **NaomiM** Thu Jul 29, 2021 8:55 pm

by **cycladelic** Mon Aug 29, 2022 11:27 am

Six pieces made by Robin Welch, plus a coffee pot and teapot below.

The large tankard has Bristol 1979 impressed on it and the mug on the right The London Design Centre.

by **philpot** Tue Aug 30, 2022 8:47 am

These came from the time when you might say Robin Welch ran a studio production pottery. Nearly all jollied. They do seem to have done fair amount of specialist 'souvenir' work as well.

by **cycladelic** Tue Aug 30, 2022 9:29 am

Yes, they are uniformal, but the quality is fabulous.

I also have a mug impressed with Bressingham Gardens - Diss Norfolk and once had a Cambridge tankard.

I wonder if he got commissions via word-of-mouth, or if he hawked his ware.

by **philpot** Wed Aug 31, 2022 3:54 pm

It might well be word of mouth or advertising. His pottery was in a fairly remote rural setting. A few miles from, Diss. 20 miles from Bury St Edmunds, 15-miles or so from Norwich. Not the sort of place you get a lot of passing custom.
Equally of course, he established a reputation as an important potter quite early on.

by **studio-pots** Sun Mar 26, 2023 4:05 pm

A "Sir Robin" from around 2012.

by **studio-pots** Sun Mar 26, 2023 4:06 pm

A footed bowl c 2010

by **Roobarb** Tue Sep 26, 2023 6:09 pm

Hello,

I wondered if anyone might be able to help me to roughly date this piece?

Thank you...

by **NaomiM** Tue Sep 26, 2023 6:29 pm

It's part of his early standard ware range

by **philpot** Tue Sep 26, 2023 7:27 pm

What 'standard ware means, Is that for several years after he started his Suffolk pottery in 1965, he had a team of assistants making uniform pottery in thrown, jigger and jolleyed techniques. This produced a substantial amount of identical items, over a fairly wide range.
So pottery with this sort of mark on is probably not made by Robin Welch himself. But by a person in a team of potters. In a similar way that an item labelled Bernard Leach St Ives standard ware was not made by Bernard Leach.
Below is a link to page 4 of our Robin Welch thread. Scroll down and she will see a photo of a leaflet advertising the types of Stadard ware they mase.
https://www.20thcenturyforum.com/t4271p75-robin-welch?highlight=robin+welch

by **Roobarb** Wed Sep 27, 2023 5:02 pm

Thank you both :)

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