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Size: Diameter 35.5 cm. Condition: Very good condition. There are some typical craze lines. A very faint hairline crack on the rim has been consolidated with glue – it is so faint it will not show on an image. The charger has a wire round the purpose made groove in the foot-rim, to enable it to be wall-hung. This charger is made using the Aldermarston technique of tin glazed lustre ware, and has a design with a lizard as the central motif. It is signed by Alan Caiger-Smith, the founder of Aldermarston pottery, and has a couple of other signatures as well as the date mark for 1995 and the number 70.1 – an unusually large number of marks for an Aldermarston piece. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He trained in pottery at the Central School of Art & Design in 1954 under Dora Billington. In 1995 Caiger-Smith founded the Aldermarston pottery, where he worked with a number of assistant potters, many of whom went on to be well known in their own right. The output of the pottery was almost exclusively tin-glazed earthenware, much of it using reduction fired lustre in the manner of the ancient Islamic potters. Caiger-Smith developed and refined this technique, although he also acknowledged the pioneering work of potters such as William de Morgan and Pilkington’s Royal Lancastrian in this field. Caiger-Smith ceased using assistants around the time this charger was made, but continued to pot at Aldermarston until it closed in 2006.

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