Lot 255
A MAK' MERRY POTTERY BOWL AND COVER
DATED 1922
Scottish Silver & Applied Arts
Auction: 15 August 2018 at 11:00 BST
£688
Description
decorated with green apples and dog roses on a blue ground, bearing inscription HE THAT WOULD THRIVE; MUST RISE AT FIVE/ HE THAT HAS THRIVEN; MAY HE TILL SEVEN, with painted marks to bowl and cover MAK' MERRY/ XXII
Dimensions
bowl 21cm diameter
Footnote
Note: Mak' Merry Pottery was established in 1920 by Catherine Blair as a trading arm of the Scottish Women's Rural Institute. Using pottery as vehicle for artistic expression, she gave lonely and isolated country women a sense of independence as well as an opportunity to socialise and make money for their rural economy.