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Bolingey Studio Pottery Beakers.

Ł12.99

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Bolingey studio pottery Perranporth Cornwall pair of beakers designed by Mike Edwards. incised marks Bolingey Perranporth underlined with 6" nail by Mike Edwards.

Medium : Studio pottery, red earthenware and brown speckel or

flecked slip glaze.

Circ : 1960-1990.

Cond't : Excellent with no cracks or chips.

Size/D : 4" (10.2cm High x 3.2" (8.2cm) in diameter.

Bolingey Pottery

Bolingey is a small village between Perranporth and Penwortha Combe on the Atlantic coast of Cornwall.

In the early 1960s Norman Taylor, a travelling salesman from Coventry, moved to Perranporth and learned how to pot at evening classes. He started the pottery at Bolingey and operated it with the help of his family. Mike Edwards who had previously potted with Lake's at Truro, started helping Norman in the evenings, and was taken on full-time in 1965.

The Bolingey mark was incised with a six-inch nail, and Mike identified his own pots by putting a line under the word 'Perranporth'. He would also put his initials on anything that he was particularly proud of.

The company adapted, at Mike's instigation, many of Lake's designs. They were successful through the sixties and seventies and closed in 1990.