} { Free delivery for many products. Initially Alan made earthenware tin-glazed domestic pots, later adopting stoneware. The S is for someone called Sue who was Wallworks assistant at Greenwich in the early 60s. I thought that the glaze in the bowl was exceptionally fine and I have included a shot of the base that illustrates that almost all of his AW pieces start out by being thrown. He continued to experiment with tin-glazing, brush and sgraffito decoration, rubbed-on oxides. *Alan Wallwork [1931-2019] two stoneware 'split seed pods': of flattened oviform with notched aperture and multiple piercings on a texture ivory and russet ground, incised AW, 22 and 20cm high. Many of Alan's seconds have firing cracks where they are not supposed to be, he could have destroyed them but most potteries needed to be practical and sell them - even Poole had a seconds area I believe? Sort by View Grid List Share Refine Artist Alan Wallwork Form This lot qualifies for Artist Resale Rights. Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated! The W mark was the first mark that Alan used and it was never meant to differentiate between standard "Wallwork Pottery" pieces and personal individual pieces. Original Vintage 1930 Teracotta Quarry Tiles 6 Inch Total 46 Terracotta Floor Tile Authentic RECLAIM Canterbury, Kent Original 1930's Vintage quarry tiles. Here's an experimental tile that Alan made himself at Marnhull and originally came to me directly from "Wallsprocket", as we used to call him, in 2004. BRIGLIN EARTHENWARE VASE Date c. 1960 - 30.00. x = overFlowX > 0 ? And whose attitudes influenced him heavily. Incised mark to the base, 'AW'. But it does show that some items slipped though and are unmarked as usual and just because someone has scratched a W on the base does not make it a fake. display = true; The market for Alan Wallwork seems to have calmed down a lot now. Alan was born in Watford, Hertfordshire, the son of James Wallwork, a graphic artist, and his wife, Muriel (nee Lake). The incised W mark was used on most of his output from the late 1950s until some time in the late . You've searched high and low for the perfect alan wallwork we have versions that date back to the 20th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 20th Century are available. { { } It was necessary to take on larger premises to produce these tiles. renderedWidth = renderedElement.offsetWidth; *Alan Wallwork [1931-2019] two stoneware vessels: comprising a 'seed pod' and a 'crescent form' the former of oviform with narrow neck with and indented band under ivory and splashed russet glaze, the latter with deep notched rim and semi-circular bands of piercing, under ivory and russet glazes, incised AW with paper labels, 15 and 14cm high. if ( display == true ) All rights reserved. When Alan first started to make pottery in the late 1950s he did throw a quantity of work in the Bernard Leach/Oriental style and this had an impressed W seal mark (not incised like his more typical work from this period but an actual seal mark). { Alan occupied these premises for many yearsworking on tiles, hand-built, slabbed. 20th Century Forum::Pottery Identification / Research::Studio Pottery, // 0 ? excessHeight = 20; element.style.visibility = "hidden"; Subsequently moving to much larger premises in Greenwich. { Anyways, I take back those comments I made on the W work Studio! More Ways To Browse Small Brutalist Vintage Dining Tables Uk Vintage Style Furniture Uk Mid Century Brutalist Lamp var start = document.go_page.start.value; Here and subsequently on a better site at nearby Uplyme he concentrated on his softer, more rounded, hand-built pieces, producing tactile pebbles and seed-pods, pinch pots and crescent shapes, further stimulated by Dorsets fertile coastal landscape. Still a valid piece by the maker but just sold as a second and faulty piece. A small unusual piece of Alan's work that I sold in September. The trouble is there seems very little of the Greenwich work around nowadays. { renderedElement.style.visibility = "visible";