Moorcroft Collectors Club 1990 Pink Rose Majolica Pitcher Rare Sally Tuffin

  

Moorcroft Collectors Club 1990 Pink Rose Majolica Pitcher. Functionally glazed decorated home decor accessory for water or flowers. It reflects the art nouveau.

Arts and crafts mission bungalow Victorian mid century modern Art Deco styles. Made in England, The markings on the bottom include the arrow mark for 1990 and the WM for the artist. It is a Sally Tuffin design.

This is a very exclusive Moorcroft jug, the 1990 Collectors Club exclusive in the Rose pattern, designed by Sally Tuffin (please see special backstamp on base). Bought at an antique shop in Dunedin, New Zealand in the early 1990's. Very decorative and hard-to-find Moorcroft Pottery Collectors Club rose pitcher. No chips, cracks, damage or repair of any kind.

Bottom marked with oval MOORCROFT COLLECTORS CLUB stamp, MOORCROFT, MADE IN ENGLAND. And the symbol is an arrow meaning 1990. Pitcher is 6" tall and approximately 12" wide.

W illiam Moorcroft was employed by Staffordshire pottery manufacturers James Macintyre & Co. As a designer in 1897, and after a year he was responsible for the company's art pottery studio. William Moorcroft created designs for the Macintyre's Aurelian Ware range of high-Victorian pottery, which had transfer-printed and enamelled decoration in bold red, blue and gold colours. He also developed the art nouveau-influenced Florian Ware, which was decorated entirely by hand, with the design outlined in trailed slip using a technique known as tubelining.

William Moorcroft's designs won him a gold medal at the St. Louis International Exhibition in 1904.

Each piece of pottery produced was personalised with Moorcroft's own signature or initials. William Moorcroft and James Macintyre & Co. Split up in 1913 and Moorcroft founded his own factory nearby.

Some finance came from the famous London store Liberty, and Liberty continued to exercise control over Moorcroft until 1962. Moorcroft's reputation was further enhanced with the appointment of the Moorcroft company as Potter to HM The Queen in 1928. On the death of William Moorcroft in 1945, his elder son, Walter, took over.

D design, and he continued in this position until his retirement in 1987, after which he continued contributing to Moorcroft designs. In the 1980s Moorcroft got into financial difficulties as a result.

Of rising wages and fuel, which were exacerbated by the labour intensive techniques employed by Moorcroft and the company went through several changes in ownership with the result that from 1993 the company was controlled by the Edwards family, which is still the case. The young 24-year-old designer Rachel Bishop joined Moorcroft in 1993, as only its fourth designer in almost a hundred years and her designs become immediately popular. In 1997 the Moorcroft Design Studio was formed with eight designers, and with Rachel Bishop as head designer. Moorcroft celebrated its centenary in 1997, marking the year that William Moorcroft joined MacIntyre as its founding date, rather than the year the company was founded. 1920's, its previous heyday.

Sally Tuffin came into ceramics from a background in fashion design. In the early 1960's she was the other half of'Foale & Tuffin', one of the trendiest labels in Carnaby Street, London. She turned to ceramics in 1972 when her retailing partnership was dissolved and in 1985, with her husband, Richard Dennis, launched The Dennis China Works to make ceramics for collectors. Sally and Richard Dennis re-started the Dennis China Works in 1993 after reviving Moorcroft pottery for the previous six years. Sally Tuffin's designs are influenced by the arts and crafts movement and nature. All pieces are signed and numbered.