Slipware Exhibition Pieces

In preparation for a couple of forthcoming exhibitions I've been making a few slipware pieces, starting with this jug for the Saint Valentine's show at Crown Studio Gallery, Bridge Street, Rothbury, Northumberland. It has a heart formed from flowers on one side and Shakespeare's Sonnet 116, "Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments", on the reverse.

For the Parkmade exhibition at Preston Hall Museum, Eaglescliffe, Stockton, I've made this piece inspired by Lewis Carroll's poem, The Walrus and the Carpenter, from Through the Looking- Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872. 

And lastly this platter also on its way to Preston Hall.

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From Ancient Egypt to English Country Slipware

I think I've said before that my work can be quite wide and varied, well here's an example:  Over the past few days I've been working on sets of Egyptian Canopic Jars and some English Slipware.

Canopic Jar Set

Slipware Puzzle Jug

In this jar there is good liquor

Fit for either clerk or vicar

But to drink and not to spill

Will try the utmost of your skill 

A Slipware Harvest Jug

Good luck to the hoof and the horn

Good luck to the flock and fleece

Good luck to the growers of corn

With blessings of plenty and peace

Getting a bit nautical with this Mermaid Jug

Posset

A Health to King Charles

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Making Medieval

I'll be at Rievaulx Abbey Saturday and Sunday 10th and 11th July demonstrating Mediaeval potting methods so I'm making some additions to my handling collection in the form of a replica Aquamanille and a couple of Scarborough Ware Knight Jugs.  Great fun!

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