This pot was made by Derek Smith in Australia.

During the 1970s Derek Smith set up pottery production and training studios in Sydney. Blackfriars Pottery, established in Chippendale in 1976, became the largest of its kind in Australia.

This pot is rubbed with cobalt oxide to produce the blue colour, and partly covered with white glaze. The brown areas are where natural iron in the clay is not masked by cobalt oxide and the glaze.

This pot was made in 1976.

Pot, discoid form, stoneware, Derek Smith, Australia, 1976.

White stoneware discoid supported on a small cylindrical foot, the whole hollow and with a U-shaped piece cut out of the top. Blue areas of cobalt oxide and white glaze on the course surface. An incised linear pattern stained black on each side, incised black line around foot, incised circle on white glaze.

Maker: Smith, Derek; Australia; 1976

Signed 'Derek Smith' in paint. Impressed 'DS' monogram.

A6555

1976

197 mm

160 mm

54 mm