Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Pottery Marks of Prince Edward Island - Index

Pottery has traditionally been marked with the place of production as well as a means of identifying the potter or the studio where it was made. Many studio potters include the year as well. Requests from collectors for information on their PEI pottery items has grown into a blog about Prince Edward Island potters.

Village Pottery in New London, PEI continues to be a big part of our family life; founded by my wife Daphne Large in 1973 it is now owned and managed by our daughter Suzanne Scott, while Daphne and I continue as active potters within the business. My interest in the field developed when I worked as a leather instructor at Holland College School of Visual Arts in 1972, worked with both Barry Jeeves and Ron Arvidson, who were instructors in the pottery studio. They both influenced a generation of potters including myself. I began compiling information on current and historic potters on Prince Edward Island after getting questions by email sent to the Village Pottery address and decided to post the responses in blog format.

Local collectors of Island pottery including Gary Carroll, Tom Banks and Catherine Hennessey have all been generous with sharing their collections with me and providing photographs, which is much appreciated.

This listing is not complete, and we welcome additional information and images or edits that you notice which need correcting. Your suggestions help it grow. You can contact the author via email -- Ian Scott, Charlottetown, PEI

The current listings include, (in no particular order):
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3 comments:

Unknown said...

What a fabulous resource. It would be wonderful to have the PEI Museum Foundation fund a book on PEI Pottery.

April 3, 2019 at 12:52 PM
Unknown said...

It would be good to apply for a grant to do the work to fund a book on PEI Pottery. There is a market out there for such a book.. and a whole new generation of pottery lovers who are thrilled to find vintage pieces. A book of PEI Potters and Studios would greatly enhance the general public's knowledge of PEI Potters, both present and past, and having Ian Scott's Blog as a foundation for that book would be a wonderful start. Catherine Hennessy's book on The PEI Pottery company was a welcome start to getting to know PEI Pottery, Potters and Studios, but we need a comprehensive resource, as well as a living document online that could be made available through the PEI Government, as a list of PEI Potters, both past and Present, and something that could be maintained annually by a specific Dept or the Craft Council. I'm sure the Craft Council and several other organizations would be interested and thrilled to have such a book and resource.

November 16, 2020 at 9:41 AM
Brenda Bryanton said...

I have a ceramic vase I acquired in a bizarre. The Artist name is R & A Ceramics Gallery, PEI. date September 1981. (Rosie & Archie Kerchaert). I cannot find the artist on Google Search? Are they listed in PEI, anywhere?

July 16, 2024 at 5:38 AM

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