Auction 022 Part 1
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Aug 14, 2021
Cobridge Hall, Grange Street, Cobridge, Stoke on Trent Staffordshire, ST6 3HP
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LOT 25:
SHORTER & Sons 14cm CHARACTER MODELS (2) "DAISY BELL" And "MOTHER GOOSE"
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Sold for: £2
Start price:
£
10
Estimated price:
£10 - £20
Buyer's Premium: 18%. Minimum item commission: £1.25. Hammer price for minimum commission: £15.
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SHORTER & Sons 14cm CHARACTER MODELS (2) "DAISY BELL" And "MOTHER GOOSE"
(The pottery firm which later became Shorter and Son was first set up by Arthur Shorter in 1878 with a partner James Boulton in Stoke on Trent. Their products were solidly in the main-stream of Victorian taste - majolica wares of all types: jugs, bowls, flower pots and tableware, predominated.
In 1891 Arthur’s brother-in-law A. J. Wilkinson died in an accident. Arthur Shorter was asked to manage the pottery Wilkinson had established in Burslem in 1885. A few years later he bought the firm and in 1898 Arthur’s son Colley joined him. His younger son Guy, who became manager at Shorter's in 1900, joined his father and Colley at Wilkinson's in 1905. The two factories worked in close co-operation, advertising and exhibiting jointly.
Colley and Guy were made directors of Wilkinsons in 1916, the same year that Clarice Cliff, aged 17, started work there as a decorator. In 1920 the family acquired the Newport Pottery, also in Burslem, later famous for its production of Clarice Cliff’s "Bizarre" ware.)
