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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Bowl

1950 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

After studying textiles design at the Royal College of Art in London, Marianne de Trey married the potter Sam Haile, from whom she learned to make pottery. The two took over the Shinner's Bridge Pottery at Dartington in Devon, southwest England, in 1947. The following year Haile died in a car accident, leaving de Trey to continue alone. Her earlier productions were domestic wares, either in slip-decorated or tin-glazed earthenware. These were produced in a production pottery that employed several people and established a regular apprentice scheme. Stoneware was produced at the pottery from the mid-1950s.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Stoneware, with applied decoration under a salt glaze
Brief description
Stoneware bowl, made by M. De Trey, Shinner's Bridge Pottery, Dartington, 1950
Physical description
Stoneware bowl with applied decoration under a salt glaze.
Dimensions
  • Depth: 15.00cm
  • Height: 10.50cm
Object history
Acquisition details: see Circ.5-1951
Summary
After studying textiles design at the Royal College of Art in London, Marianne de Trey married the potter Sam Haile, from whom she learned to make pottery. The two took over the Shinner's Bridge Pottery at Dartington in Devon, southwest England, in 1947. The following year Haile died in a car accident, leaving de Trey to continue alone. Her earlier productions were domestic wares, either in slip-decorated or tin-glazed earthenware. These were produced in a production pottery that employed several people and established a regular apprentice scheme. Stoneware was produced at the pottery from the mid-1950s.
Bibliographic reference
Watson, Oliver. British Studio Pottery : the Victoria and Albert Museum Collection, Oxford : Phaidon, Christie's, in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1990
Collection
Accession number
CIRC.13-1951

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Record createdJanuary 14, 2000
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