Featured Studio pottery bowl

Discussion in 'Pottery, Glass, and Porcelain' started by Chinoiserie, Jan 23, 2026 at 3:51 PM.

  1. Chinoiserie

    Chinoiserie Well-Known Member

    I found this last Sunday and I am still struggling to ID the pottery. It looks like CA on the base but notv100% on that. Ø=22cm. Any ideas please?

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  2. johnnycb09

    johnnycb09 Well-Known Member

    Its nice but studio pottery is nigh on impossible to identify most of the time. I went thru a phase with studio pottery and learned that the hard way.
     
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  3. say_it_slowly

    say_it_slowly The worst prison is a closed heart

    If you rotate the mark it looks rather like a dollar sign or maybe SH or something like that. Where was it found?
     
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  4. Chinoiserie

    Chinoiserie Well-Known Member

    I dunno. I've had varying degrees of success. For pottery this side of the pond there is a website with a search tool. You can enter the letters in the makers mark and it produces results. As long as you can make the letters out you have half a chance.
     
  5. Chinoiserie

    Chinoiserie Well-Known Member

    Ooh more permutations. I was thinking GA perhaps. One horizontal line for the A and the other for the G. Still no luck though. I'll have a look at your suggestions thanks. I found it in NW UK.
     
  6. kentworld

    kentworld Well-Known Member

    I think there is a Facebook page for studio pottery ID, but dunno if it's just US or others
     
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  7. Chinoiserie

    Chinoiserie Well-Known Member

    Thank you.
     
  8. Chinoiserie

    Chinoiserie Well-Known Member

    This mark is very similar other than it is drawn on whereas as mine is incised. Sinclair Sheen from Aldermaston pottery. Funnily enough, when I was doing Google lens searches on the bowl, it yielded lots of Alan Caiger Smith results, who founded Aldermaston pottery.

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    Last edited: Jan 24, 2026 at 5:10 PM
  9. say_it_slowly

    say_it_slowly The worst prison is a closed heart

    I have the book British Studio Pottery Marks by Yates-Owen and Fournier. I had only made a cursory pass through it when you posted your possible maker.

    The way they list it in the book, I believe Sinclair is the last name (though I like the way it sounds in any order).

    Anyway, here is some of what there is, if you haven't found it elsewhere. We're in a winter storm at the moment so I might get a chance to browse through the book more later.

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    From a different pottery but similar mark
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