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Derek Emms
Derek Emms
Derek Emms

Derek Emms

Accrington, Cheshire, 1929 - 2004
About MeDerek Emms combined skilled making with an individual but quiet style. He followed the Leach tradition with sound, well-designed shapes with smooth, practical restrained glazes. He taught David Frith at Longton School of Art which later became North Staffs Polytechnic.
Stoneware vase
Smethwick, England, 1898 - 1935
Valentines
Dundee, Scotland, founded 1851
Moulded Fish Vase
Woodville, Derbyshire, England, founded 1882
Ruth Beardsworth
Bremen, Germany, born 1943
Ian McKenzie Smith
Montrose, Scotland, born 1935
Green Glaze Double Vase
Middlesbrough, England, founded 1879
Vase by Clews and Company
Stoke-on-Trent, England, 1906 - 1961
Pilkington's Tile & Pottery Company
Salford, England, 1891 - 2010
John McLean
Liverpool, England, 1939 - 2019
Stoke-on-Trent, England, 1793 - 1968
Moorcroft
Stoke-on-Trent, England, founded 1913
Mottled miniature vase
Edinburgh, Scotland, 1917 - 1927
Eddie Curtis
Seaham, County Durham, born 1953
Souvenir Holiday China
Longton, England
Brigadier Frost Pasha
Aberdeen, Scotland, 1838 - 1902
David Leach
Tokyo, Japan, 1911 - 2005
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Dronrijp, Netherlands, 1836 - 1912
Photograph in album showing John Lewis built vessel Freeland
coaster, built 1919
Leach Pottery
St Ives, Cornwall, England, founded 1920
Eric Gill
Brighton, England, 1882 - 1940