Vintage Denby Pottery Glyn Colledge rectangular dish
A striking and unusual, 1960s, rectangular stoneware oven dish, decorated with a leaf pattern in turquoise, teal, pink and brown on grey-white background. Designed by Glyn Colledge for Denby in the mid-1960s, it has the Denby Stoneware and Glyn Colledge signature backstamps on the base.
Glyn Colledge began working for the Denby Pottery Company in 1938, whilst also studying at the Burslem School of Art, but left to serve in the RAF Sea Rescue Service during the Second World War. He returned to Denby as a trainee designer, tutored by his father Albert Colledge, who was the company's design director. Glyn studied ceramics at Derby College of Art, and later became a part-time lecturer there as well as at Ilkeston College of Further Education. He used one of Denby's studios to create "Glyn Ware", which was mainly decorated with designs of trailing leaves. To avoid the high rate of purchase tax (prior to the introduction of VAT) on decorative pottery, the pieces were given functional descriptions and signed by Colledge so that it would be classed as studio pottery.
Glyn Colledge took early retirement from Denby in 1983, and died in 2000, at the age of 78.
- Height approx. 4.5cm
- Width approx. 21cm
- Length approx. 31cm
