Wenford Bridge Pottery

It should be a T with the vertical of the T the vertical of a P if it is.

I think he was an apprentice at Wenford at the same time as Svend and Svend helped him set up his pottery back in the States after they both had left Wenford.

Sorry for slow reply. It is hard to see your mark properly so perhaps best if you look here and see which mark looks most like. Tom Roberts and Todd Piker's marks are very similar actually. This is a page of some of the marks of other people who worked, trained or made pots occasionally at Wenford. It is not complete- I have lots of lists of trainees but not photos of all their marks- Here are quite a few though-  Wenford marks

Todd Piker looks spot on

A recent purchase but sadly no potters mark/stamp

Hi
Does anyone know this mark??
Any hep appreciated.
Thanks you

Nice piece by Seth Cardew, Wenford Bridge

Many thanks for info NaomiM

Unfortunately only the Wenford Bridge Mark but the style/pattern is very Cardew/Kwali could anyone shed further light on who it is likely to be...





I wish there were more marks!

Ara Cardew is also a possibility but I don’t own any so I’ve nothing to compare it to

Generic Wenford Bridge, and that is about it. You might wish it to be different, but it is virtually impossible to prove such an item is by anyone in particular.

Yes, good pedigree though

Hello- I’ve two plates. One 8.25” across by 1.5” tall and the lighter one is 7.75” x .85”. I’ve searched for a few days and still need help identifying the potter. Both pieces bear the same marks. Any ideas?

Now that is a real difficult one. Not one of the recognised pupils who worked there. Michael Cardew did have visitors from the Abuja pottery who stayed for a while. Wonder if its one of them? Seth also had pupils,but those are much less well documented

There were also a number of potters from the USA and others that now live there that were apprentices at Wenford Bridge. I did used to know several names but they have gone from the memory. Even Mark Hewitt, who I actually exhibited, was difficult to re-call.

As these turned up in Vermont, my guess is that an American potter is most likely.

I did not realise you were in Vermont. Some research gives a link with Michael Cardew and Wenford Bridge much closer to your home.
Michael Cardew had two quite extensive visits to the USA in 1971 and 1972. In 1971 he did demonstrations and lectures at Swarthmore College Philadelphia.He visited the school of American Crafsmen in Rochester New York, and the big event of his tour talk and demonstrations at Arrowmint schoo, of crafts in Gatingburg. He stayed with the potter Charles Counts. One of the main ideas of this tour was to organise a tour by the Nigerian potter Ladi Kwali.
End of June 1971 Michael Cardew stayed with Kent Benson an American potter who had a pottery near Montreal . Benson and Cardew were old friends, having worked together in Nigeria, and had a very long going friendship. Benson also visited Wenford Bridge and made some pots there. Could this be one of his? While staying with Benson, they visited Goddard College in Vermont where he gained support for the Ladi Kwali visit.
In 1972 Cardew and the Nigerian potters Clement Athey and Ladi Kwali did an extensive two and a half month tour of the USA. Criss Crossing the South, moving on to Baltimoreand Morgan State College,Wahington at Howard University, New York at the Harlem School of Arts, then Chicago, Lose Angeles, Dallas and finally staying with the Pikers in New York.
Micahel Cardew was also back in the USA in 1976, where he travelled extensively.

I've just come up with another name, Todd Piker, who works at Cornwall Bridge, Connecticut was at Wenford Bridge in the 1970s. I wouldn't think your plates are by him ……. but he might know who made them.

Mark Hewitt worked with Todd Piker...

I'll follow up on Mr. Piker. . I sent a note to Ara Cardew in New Hampshire and didn't recognize the mark. Miranda Thomas, one of Seth's students is here in VT as well. I may contact her this weekend.

Miranda Thomas was a name I couldn't recall either.

Looking at that mark again. Another North American potter at Wenford Bridge was Sam Uhlick. Now does that look mark like an inverted U with an I in it?  This is an auction link to the sale of a couple of his pots. Is the combing on that bowl similar?  
https://pin.it/n3ravddrxeoddh

He is still potting in Canada. Might be worth getting in touch with him.

Examples of Sam Uhlick’s mark that I’ve found are an S in a U

Small finger swipe pin dish, judging by the crazing to the glaze I would say it has some age to it? Any comments on age, potter etc...?

https://www.facebook.com/groups/BritishStudioPottery/permalink/1530644417124299/

This is a Facebook link to a fascinating large group of pictures of Wenford Bridge pottery posted on face book by Martin Upton. They are fascinating.

Another superb Facebook Wenford Bridge photo portfolio, This time by Alastair Hawtin,