Hello. We like to collect well-designed vintage pottery (and lots of other stuff) from the 1950s,
'60s and '70s. Here are some pictures and info of a selection of the things we've found.

Tuesday 5 February 2013

Slip-decorated dishes from the 1950s. More butterflies.













The butterfly plaque featured in the last blog-post reminded me of these colourful butterfly pin dishes.

These small dishes are only about 4 inches (10cm) wide but they are really nicely decorated with hand-applied butterfly illustrations. The image of the butterfly is made up of a series of dots and trails in coloured slip that must have taken great skill and accuracy to apply.

The colour combinations are fabulous and so typical of the 1950s.

The dishes are by Hornsea pottery and were made in or around 1956. There's quite a range of similar Hornsea slip-decorated items from this era. Remember the fish dish posted a while ago: Hornsea fish dish 
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3 comments:

  1. tove5 February 2013 at 12:39

    Oh, these are gorgeous, and so wonderfully 50s! Yummy colors:-)

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  2. Pippa5 February 2013 at 22:09

    I'm in love with those colours!

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  3. patty8 February 2013 at 14:04

    Lovely calming colours, very nice pots.

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