DOI Heft:
No. 393 (December 1925)
DOI Artikel:Rackham, Bernard: The pottery of Mr. Reginald F. Wells
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21403#0366
THE POTTERY OF MR. REGINALD F. WELLS
FIRST STEPS " (BRONZE)
BY REGINALD F. WELLS
(Fine Art Society, Ltd.)
gradations of tone obtainable by careful cheering to find successors in the present
control of composition and firing, and of who are once more alive to the essentials
the relation of such colouring to the light of their craft, a a 0 0 a
and shade of the form. The effects arising We can only be glad of the progress
from the downward flow of the liquescent that has been made in this country since
gla^e during the firing have also been the war in appreciation of such wares as
brought into play, giving when rightly con- those of Mr. Wells. They are valuable
trolled a dappled or slightly undulating not only for their own sake, but also for
surface agreeable alike to sight and touch, the wholesome stimulus they give towards
And with it all we are not allowed to forget the improvement of pottery made for
the body, as it were of bone and flesh, upon useful purposes on purely commercial
which this outer dress is laid. Too often lines. Indeed it may fairly be claimed that
the splendour of colour that can be called the upward movement that can certainly
forth with the help of the furnace has be discerned in the designing of ordinary
blinded the potter to the need of keeping table wares in the last few years is due in
and cherishing that clay quality which is no small measure to the efforts of pioneer-
the foremost birthright of a pot. The ing artist potters who have had the courage
English potters of the past, before they to take the risks of striking out on paths of
became engulfed in the flood of in- their own choosing. 000
dustrialism, were less prone than some
others to yield to this temptation, and it is Bernard Rackham.
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FIRST STEPS " (BRONZE)
BY REGINALD F. WELLS
(Fine Art Society, Ltd.)
gradations of tone obtainable by careful cheering to find successors in the present
control of composition and firing, and of who are once more alive to the essentials
the relation of such colouring to the light of their craft, a a 0 0 a
and shade of the form. The effects arising We can only be glad of the progress
from the downward flow of the liquescent that has been made in this country since
gla^e during the firing have also been the war in appreciation of such wares as
brought into play, giving when rightly con- those of Mr. Wells. They are valuable
trolled a dappled or slightly undulating not only for their own sake, but also for
surface agreeable alike to sight and touch, the wholesome stimulus they give towards
And with it all we are not allowed to forget the improvement of pottery made for
the body, as it were of bone and flesh, upon useful purposes on purely commercial
which this outer dress is laid. Too often lines. Indeed it may fairly be claimed that
the splendour of colour that can be called the upward movement that can certainly
forth with the help of the furnace has be discerned in the designing of ordinary
blinded the potter to the need of keeping table wares in the last few years is due in
and cherishing that clay quality which is no small measure to the efforts of pioneer-
the foremost birthright of a pot. The ing artist potters who have had the courage
English potters of the past, before they to take the risks of striking out on paths of
became engulfed in the flood of in- their own choosing. 000
dustrialism, were less prone than some
others to yield to this temptation, and it is Bernard Rackham.
360