CONSTANCE SPRY AND THE FULHAM POTTERY

Zoom lecture by Tony Peart, at 6.00 pm (London). The Fulham Pottery, which remained on the same site for over three centuries, is celebrated in the history of ceramics as the first pottery in England to perfect the large-scale manufacture of salt-glazed stoneware and for the artistic quality and innovation of its early wares. By the early 20th century only utilitarian stoneware was being manufactured but from the 1930s onwards a series of attempts were made to reintroduce the production of ‘art’ pottery to Fulham and to recapture the former artistic standing of the company. Each failed. However, in April 1935 the pottery was approached by Constance Spry to create some ‘special vases’ for her shop, Flower Decorations Ltd. The ‘Constance Spry vase’ not only revolutionised the fortunes of the pottery but was also a major factor in the mass popularisation of flower arranging in the years following the war.
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