Arts & Crafts gold crackle glaze pitcher

with stylised ‘grotesque’ fish spout and handle

Raised slip decoration with platinum leaf crackle glaze

Sir Edmund Elton

Sunflower Pottery

Painted Elton mark

Circa 1910

Height 22cm. Width 16cm. Depth 11cm

Sir Edmund Elton (1846-1920) was a self-taught artist potter. He established his Sunflower Pottery at Clevedon in 1881. He began experimenting with metallic glazes and developed his famous crackle glaze in 1902 . He began firing liquid gold and platinum over a cracked glaze base. He was mainly inspired by Japanese design and early European ‘grotesque’ pottery.