Matching lamp base for Poole Freeform vase

It seems like ages ago when I did a blogpost on a Poole Freeform vase from the 1950s. Remember this:  Poole Freeform vase. 

Here is a matching item that I have had displayed with the vase. This item is actually a lamp base but I think it looks more elegant displayed without any of the fittings. The design is hand-painted, I think by Gwen Haskins, and I have an idea that it dates from the late 1950s or early 1960s.

Poole Freeform vase 1950s

Here's another example from the Poole Freeform range. This elegantly shaped vase is delicately hand painted in subtle colours. Again this is a design by Alfred Read, pattern PLT, from 1954. Apart from the smart colour combinations, I particularly like the waisted form of this tall vase.

There's more information and some fine examples of Poole Freeform pottery on Rob's site here: Rob's contemporary gallery

Poole Freeform bowl by Alfred Read

There's something reassuringly sturdy about the shape of this small bowl by Poole. It has a curved flattened disc shape that seems to work well. But it's the intricacy of the delicate hand-painting that makes the bowl something extra special.

The bowl is from the Freeform range by Poole Pottery. The criss-cross pattern is in green, blue, white and red was designed by Alfred Read in 1954, I think the pattern is known as PKT. I'm not sure who actually painted this bowl but I do know that Gwen Haskins painted items for Poole in this design during the mid to late 1950s.

There's a good picture of a group of vases in the PKT design at the Virtual Museum of Poole Pottery:  Poole PKT vases