Arts & Crafts platinum crackle glaze pitcher

with stylised three loop handle

Raised slip decoration with platinum leaf crackle glaze

Sir Edmund Elton

Sunflower Pottery

Painted Elton mark

Circa 1910

Height 20cm. Diameter 10cm

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.