Arts & Crafts gold crackle glaze bottle

with stylised three loop handle and three roundels and crimped top

Raised slip decoration with gold crackle glaze

Sir Edmund Elton

Sunflower Pottery

Painted Elton mark

Circa 1910

Height 25cm. Diameter 10cm

This bottle has had a professional repair to the top 15mm x 4mm

There is a small glaze chip which could be repaired

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.