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- These wall pockets were supplied in two sizes (the small size, 215 high, illustrated here) and in various colourways: undecorated, green leaves, autumn leaves etc. They were made exclusively for Gray’s Pottery by Kirklands. Matt straw glaze, mark R2. A4691, green shaded leaves, mark R2. Green glaze, mark R2.
The daughter of AE Gray from his second marriage. Joan was a designer and journalist prior to her marriage to Ronald Bailey, a senior British diplomat, whose career took them to many parts of the world. Joan Gray trained at Burslem School of Art, achieving success in craft and design in a number of disciplines.
DESIGNS
Joan designed items in the buff-bodied wares of the mid-to-late 1930s such as wall pockets for flowers, single and double free-standing cornucopia and large circular wall plaques with relief moulded sailing ships
Credits:
http://www.grayspottery.co.uk/
