B.102 - Double Handled Footed Vase

 One vase shape in multiple glazes

B.102 Grey Stone with Wheat decoration

The raised ear of wheat was incorporated into various mould designs. The wheat image was carefully wiped to reveal the white body underneath. Many of pieces that have the wheat pattern aren't numbered but instead have a Presley Ware sticker. 

B.102 Pink with Gold handles

This is my absolute favourite B.102 vase. I've only seen one other gold handled piece, owned by another collector, in pale green with gold handles.

B.102 Mahogany Woodgrain

B.102 Oak Woodgrain

From 1957, Cameron Brown alongside Teddy Rennie, created the woodgrain glaze in oak and mahogany.  A light brown glaze was airbrushed onto the pieces, then fine lines of darker brown painted over the top. George Courts of Karangahape Road and John Courts in Queen Street bought £3,000 worth of Woodgrain earthenware and had their whole shop windows full of it.

B.102 Pink and Grey

 
B.102 Black outer, Yellow inner

B.102 Colbalt

From what I've read is that the colbalt glaze was a favourite of Cameron Snr. This glaze was his well executed attempt of the dark blue of Limoges porcelain. 

B.102 Feather

Talking with Cam Jnr about the feather glaze, he finds it amusing that it's become a desirable glaze for collectors. He told me with delight that the effect is no more than somebody cleaning out the spray booth with a palette knife before smearing it onto a piece with flaws. A pattern of swirls and a quick flourish of blue, green or red. Close up it really does look like the patterns were swirled around with a stiff feather.

B.102 Red Lace 

Lace has five different underglaze colours – red, blue, black, yellow and green. In my collection I have the red lace in this shape and black lace in a jug. 

B.102 Ruby Lustre

A radiant thin sheen of gold over a rich ruby glaze. From discussions with Cam Jnr, this was an expensive glaze to manufacture. Depending on the piece’s shape, the ruby or the gold shows the strongest. 

B.102 Thatch

The effect was created using a toothbrush drawing the black glaze down from the top rim and up from the base over the brown glaze on the middle of the pieces. Then clear glazed and fired.

B.102 Black Stardust

Check out my Gallery of Glazes blog with more pictures and a description of the Stardust glaze.

B.102 Aerographed Egyptian (Titian and Aquila) 

Check out my Gallery of Glazes blog with more pictures and a description of the Aerograph glaze.


B.102 Purple Crackle Lustre

Check out my Gallery of Glazes blog with more pictures and a description of the Crackle Lustre

B.102 Yellow with brown highlights

B.102 Pale grey with pink highlights

This blog is a bit different in that it's mostly of pictures of the same vase, or more correctly, B - Bowl.The original design was cast at Waitakere, however the majority were produced at Henderson after 1957. I love the shape of this vase with its 'sweet heart neckline,' double handles and fluted foot. 

For people living in Auckland, my heart goes out to families who devastatingly lost a loved one, are displaced, and those who suffered damage to their home, business, and personal possessions in the flood on the 27th January 2023. We were fortunate that the water flowed down our drive, missing the garage, creating a waterfall in the back garden, before flowing into a huge caged manhole in the council property next door. We got off lightly compared to so many others. 

Happy days,
Louise

©Louise de Varga 2022 - Content and pictures in this blog 




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