The Oxford Ceramics Gallery

23/06/2026

More treats from today’s visit to Cardiff National Museum…

Some of the works held in the collection by including a pair of yellow cups and saucers, a beautiful and petite lidded bowl with pink glaze and sgraffito; a group of bowls including two iconic ‘knitted’ examples and a slightly squeezed vase from 1970s with an unusual ‘woven’ texture…

23/06/2026

A treat to be able to squeeze in a visit to the Cardiff National Museum today to see some of the modern ceramics collection, many from the The Derek Williams Trust

Including an unusual white cup on foot with amazing blistering band c1975 by ; ‘Jonah and the Whale’ c1938 by ; Goat c1955 by ; Theatre container 1986 by and ‘Assholes Tipped Ripely’ 2010 by

12/06/2026

ONLINE SHOP UPDATE / KATHARINE PLEYDELL-BOUVERIE

Celebrating the recent anniversary of Katharine Pleydell-Bouverie’s birth (7 June 1895) with an update in our online shop.

We have a wide selection of pots by Pleydell-Bouverie (including similar examples to these stoneware flowerpots) available alongside works by Norah Braden, William Staite Murray, Richard Batterham and many more.

Visit the link in our bio to view. We hope you enjoy browsing.

Available for purchase, shipped internationally.

Image: 1. The Modern Potter by Ronald G. Cooper, John Tyrant Ltd, 1947. 2. Group of unglazed flowerpots in white, grey buff and brown stoneware; decorated with combed incised bands by Katharine Pleydell-Bouverie. Plate 42 of the above mentioned book.

12/06/2026

ONLINE SHOP UPDATE / KATHARINE PLEYDELL-BOUVERIE

Celebrating the recent anniversary of Katharine Pleydell-Bouverie’s birth (7 June 1895) with an update in our online shop.

We have a wide selection of pots by Pleydell-Bouverie available alongside works by Norah Braden, William Staite Murray, Richard Batterham and many more.

Visit the link in our bio to view. We hope you enjoy browsing.

Available for purchase, shipped internationally.

Image: Stoneware flowerpots by Katharine Pleydell-Bouverie

12/06/2026

ONLINE SHOP UPDATE / KATHARINE PLEYDELL-BOUVERIE

Celebrating the recent anniversary of Katharine Pleydell-Bouverie’s birth (7 June 1895) with an update in our online shop.

We have a wide selection of pots by Pleydell-Bouverie available alongside works by Norah Braden, William Staite Murray, Richard Batterham and many more.

Visit the link in our bio to view. We hope you enjoy browsing.

Available for purchase, shipped internationally.

Image: 1. Stoneware flowerpots by Katharine Pleydell-Bouverie 2. Group of unglazed flowerpots in white, grey buff and brown stoneware; decorated with combed incised bands by Katharine Pleydell-Bouverie. Plate 42 of The Modern Potter by Ronald G. Cooper, John Tyrant Ltd, 1947. 3. Cover of The Modern Potter, listed above.

08/06/2026

CELEBRATING KATHARINE PLEYDELL-BOUVERIE / 1895 - 1985

We’re celebrating the anniversary of Katharine Pleydell-Bouverie’s birth this past weekend (7 June).

‘When she first started potting in the 1920s studio potters were few and far between, but despite the odds, not least her own self depreciation, Katharine Pleydell-Bouverie can now be recognised as a pioneer in her field having devoted most of her long and active life to the study of glazes’.
Barley Roscoe

From the introduction of Katharine Pleydell-Bouverie: A Potter’s Life 1895 - 1985.
Crafts Council, in association with the Craft Study Centre, 1986.

We have a wide range of works available by Pleydell Bouverie, including Carved Bowl, c. 1940s (slides 2-4).
Visit the link in our bio for further details and images.

Images: 1. Pleydell-Bouverie (left) and Norah Braden (right) at Coleshill, 1929
2,3,4. ©️

26/05/2026

26/05/2026

OBJECT OF THE WEEK

Curved Bench with Scooped Seat, 2023-24
by Jim Partridge and Liz Walmsley

Scorched oak
40 x 218 x 39 cm
16 x 86 x 15 1/2 in
(JPLW013)

Jim Partridge and his partner Liz Walmsley treat wood in a way it deserves, not with a finely turned perfection, but with a strong sense of the material’s true vigour, retaining that elemental simplicity you find in lengths of raw timber, and in the essential life of the grain. Their various sculptural bowls (Partridge’s individual work), seats, benches and bridges are not only bold pieces of concentrated form, but carry a semblance of ritual, a sense of directness and simplicity found too in tribal or early European artefacts. But the language is confidently modern, the work as at home with contemporary architecture as in the broader British landscape from which it springs and with which it so skilfully merges. Born in Leeds in 1953, Partridge attended the John Makepeace School at Parnham House. For many years Jim and Liz have been based in Shropshire.

For further details and images of Curved Bench with Scooped Seat, 2023-24 alongside additional works by Jim Partridge and Liz Walmsley visit the artist pages from the link in our bio.





Images: ©️ Michael Harvey
Text: David Whiting

22/05/2026

VISIT OUR ONLINE SHOP

‘Even the common articles made for daily use become endowed with beauty when they are loved’ - Soetsu Yanagi, The Beauty of Everday Things, 1926

Browse a wide selection of works from some our keys artists and more.
Visit the link in our bio to view. Available for purchase, shipped internationally.

Images: 1. Trio of Cut Sided Beakers by Rupert Spira
2. Bottle with Four Foxes by Ian Godfrey
Arkitetoner by Heidi Hentze
Priest and Pin-Up (7) by Philip Eglin
Large Bowl by Richard Batterham

17/05/2026

LAST DAY / CRAFTED AT SOTHEBY’S FOR LONDON CRAFT WEEK / 11 - 17 MAY

Manganese Dish, c. 1970s by Ian Godfrey
Stoneware
4.5 x 19 cm
2 x 7 1/2 in
(IG059)

Manganese Dish and additional works by Ian Godfrey (1942 - 1992) are available to view on our stand for Crafted at Sotheby’s, alongside London Craft Week, which comes to an end today, Sunday 17 May. We’re here at the Conduit Street Gallery at Sotheby’s until 5pm.

Sotheby’s
34-35 New Bond Street
London W1A 2A

For more information visit the link in our bio or DM us direct