Description
A vintage studio pottery egg-shaped bowl, by Celtic Pottery, Newlyn, Cornwall from the late 1960s or early 1970s.
Celtic Pottery was Bill and Maggie Fisher.
Bill specialised in these paintings of stylised mythical grotesque phoenixes, fish, birds, griffins, patterns etc.
Maggie later took on theses ‘Folk’ designs.
I believe these character pieces are late 1960s into the early 1970s.
It’s beautifully hand painted with a stylised phoenix character, in black (with a blue/green halo), over a ochre speckled background glaze.
The rim is black with dots and the clay below is a pale colour.
It’s unsigned (like many).
Simple egg-shaped bowl design, probably more suited as an ornamental piece, but could be used as a snack bowl, etc.
Perfect for display and use, and for a collector.
17.5cm x 13cm wide x 4.5cm.
Very good condition with no visible flaws.
