Titian Studio Pottery Blog

B-103 (Butterfly Vase) L ove is a butterfly which when pursued is just beyond your grasp, but if you will sit down quietly it may alight upon you.  -  Nathaniel Hawthorne . Who can resist a butterfly? There's the distinctive orange and black of the Monarchs floating gracefully on a breeze. The red and gold of our native Red Admiral* and the small blue hued or copper coloured moths drifting across fields of long grass. They remind me of lazy childhood Christmases spent on the Coromandel Peninsula. And school holidays riding on the back of trailers, hauled by noisy tractors at Puhoi. A time of eeling, making hay forts and looking for frogs beside an overgrown fish pond. Mum hated frogs!!  * The New Zealand red admiral (Vanessa gonerilla) is a butterfly endemic to New Zealand. Its Māori name is  kahukura , which means "red cloak". ( wikipedia.org ) B-103 Butterfly Vase Titian Studio designed, and slip cast stand-up butterfly vases and butterfly wall vases. These ...

 Which Titian Studio pieces were sold in 1961? (Auckland Museum - a photo taken off a photocopy) I was thrilled to come across a 1961 G R Newgoods Distributors brochure when I met the lovely curator from Auckland Museum's ceramic department earlier this year. The brochure proudly states, 'Sole N.Z. Distributors of Titian Pottery.' This post focuses on one column in the catalogue. I promise I'll write about the other columns of products in future posts. Excuse the blurry photo. As the Auckland Museum only has a photocopy, I've taken a photo from that. Maybe the owner of the original brochure will get int touch to let me get a better image. Wholesalers G.R. Newgoods Ltd were based at 60 Hobson St, opposite the big Farmers Trading company in Auckland's CBD. The company started in 1949 and were the first distributors of Sherwood and Titian products. It was Newgoods who gave the English Beswick catalogue to Cameron asking him to replicate some of the designs for them...