F G or G F Pottery Mark Query

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F G or G F Pottery Mark Query

by Eileen Worrow
(UK)

F G or G F Pottery Mark Query - This is the mark on the bottom of vase

F G or G F Pottery Mark Query:- I have had this vase stashed away in a cupboard for years, and found it recently. It has a mark on the bottom, but I can't find out what it means. Can anyone please help?

Eileen Worrow

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Comment by Peter (admin)

to F G or G F Pottery Mark Query

Hello Eileen

Thanks for your queries, photos and for signing up to the Newsletter. Your query has been suitably prioritized.

You have thrown me a curved ball, as they say. I have no record of any maker going under the initials of F G or G F apart from G F Bowers who ceased trading in 1868.

I found a tentative connection linking Arthur Wilkinson (Clarice Cliff) with Bowers patterns, but could find nothing else at all.

Sorry to be of little help.

My own knowledge more centered on famous English china makers, but all queries are welcome. You can do a certain amount of your own research online by knowing the most efficient way to search. On my China Replacement page, I show you how.

Best regards

Peter (admin)

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F G or G F Pottery Mark Query

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FG pottery mark
by: Mike

Hi Eileen, did you ever find the origin of your mark? I have one exactly like it to trace?

Best,

Mike

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The Forum Help Elf says:-

This mark mystery is now quite and old one and we are no closer to solving this one, unlike many other mysteries which we have solved.

Please write a further comment about exactly what it is you have, where you got it and when etc.

Every little detail of information helps. This mark is truly obscure - but is solvable if we pool our resources.

H.E.

DID YOU EVER FIND OUT ?
by: GARY

I HAVE ONE VASE , VERY DIFFERENT TO YOURS BUT WITH EXACT SAME MARKS , LOVE TO KNOW SOME INFO WHERE ITS FROM .

Follow up
by: Anonymous

We just bought a pair of vases with this mark from an Argentinian lady in The Hague, who bought them as English pottery. They are stencilled porcelain with Japanese design and gilt, 12 inches high.

How can I
by: Anonymous

add pictures to my reply to you?

FG - Mark and Ware Photos
by: Peter (admin)

Send photos of wares and mark to me here at

peter@theclayartist.com

and I will add them here to this thread

Thanks

Peter (admin)

p.s.please mark them clearly as for the "F G or G F Pottery Mark Query" thread.

FG pottery mark
by: malcolm

i have a beautifully hand painted vase measuring 310mm with exact same mark and is signed several times by the painter. The signature is very clear but in a written style and starts with B and ends with Y.

could be George Forrister
by: malcolm

could be George Forrister. Is very hard finding his mark but would be same era.

Malcolm

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Comment by Peter (admin)

Many thanks Malcolm. I could not find any marks from a George Forrister (or George Forrester)..... just Thomas Forrester.

I will take this opportunity to post up some photos we have had in from our site visitors on this maker and mystery mark.

Many thanks to Mike Waters and Gary for ther photos below.

FG or GF Pottery Mark

Hopefully we'll get this one solved soon

Peter (admin)

Any update ?
by: Anonymous

Any new info anybody ?

F & G POTTERY MARK
by: Eileen

No Mike, I never did find out what it means. I am going to take a picture of the vase and the mark to an antique auction that specialises in pottery and see what they think

Eileen x

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Peter (admin) comment:-

Hi Guys

The more I think about this mark and I see photos of the items, the more this stuff seems modern to me.

Why do I say this?

Well, unless it was a really tiny provincial company, with absolutely no catalogued marks or wares, it is a modern fantasy - people making stuff in recent times (post 1960's) trying to get their production to look as if it might get away with being passed off as older.

I have looked and looked for any evidence of this mark in all my books, in Libraries and online, but found nothing, so unless I am missing it, this mark never existed before 1960.

If I am right, these wares could come from anywhere. Far East, Soviet Block etc.

Peter (admin)

Connected to French pottery? NEW
by: Wendy

I have a piece that looks like a pin dish with a lip - maybe a spoon rest.
It has GF inside a sun, FRANCE, backstamped. There is also a painted symbol - a red painted circle with a cross dividing it. 3 of the divisions have a dot, the fourth is blank.
There is also a paper sticker - from a gift shop in Le Touquet.

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