Tea set
Sibley Pottery
Category
Ceramics
Date
5 Mar 1934
Materials
Earthenware
Place of origin
Wareham
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Clouds Hill, Dorset
NT 628361
Summary
Black earthenware tea set made locally at the Sibley Pottery, Wareham, to Lawrence's design, consisting of; 5 cups and 5 saucers, 1 teapot, 1 milk jug, 1 sugar basin, 4 plain and 2 lobed plates, 1 smaller plate and a cheese dish with lid.
Provenance
'Tea-spoons, it is; and as tea is for visitors there should be four of them, I think. As yet I have no tea-cups or plates, but I have found a pottery near Poole and a month ago I threw a sample cup and saucer, which is drying. When it dries well, I hope to glaze it with galena, a lustrous brown-black which I used with great success before the war for earthenware - and then I shall have a decent tea-service.' See L-LMPB, 5.3.1934.
Marks and inscriptions
'Sibley' (some pieces marked on base)
Makers and roles
Sibley Pottery , potters