An Earthenware Jug With Slip Decoration, Makers Mark to Base Attributed to Norah Braden (1901-2001) Height 17cm

Here we have an earthenware jug with slip decoration, makers mark to base Attributed to Norah Braden (1901-2001) height 17cm

Braden was born in 1901 in Margate. Her parents were Jessie Norwood (born Arnold) and John Templeton Braden who dealt in stationary. She showed early musical and artistic talent and she excelled on the violin. She could have gone to the Royal College of Music but she decided instead to go to Central School of Arts and Crafts.

She went on to the Royal College of Art where she decided that she should abandon fine art and concentrate on pottery for financial reasons.

She started a life-long friendship with the designer Enid Marx (who became very successful after failing the course). It was Braden who introduced her to Phyllis Barron and Dorothy Larcher and Marx became an apprentice handblock textile printer.

In 1925, Braden joined Bernard Leach's pottery in St. Ives after Sir William Rothenstein recommended her as "a genius".

Fellow apprentice artisans at the Leach Pottery around that time were Michael Cardew, Shoji Hamada, Katherine Pleydell-Bouverie and the Japanese artisan kiln builder Tsuronosuke Matsubayashi.

She would teach at Camberwell College of Arts and the University of Brighton School of Art until she retired in 1957. She had rheumatoid arthritis and she was known for being reclusive. She had to join a retirement home in 1994 and visitors were surprised to find that she had a collection of unknown finished pots. She died in 2001 in Bosham in Sussex.

The pot was bought from an auction on Brighton

Very small glaze chip to side of rim, crazing, no other chips, cracks or restoration

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