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| Jessie Van Hallen Feature
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this time were finished with the cellulose spray finish
which sadly has not stood the test of time. Iris Carryer
told me of her father's fury as they inspected some three
year old figures which had been exposed to the sunlight.
They had faded, turned a garish yellow and the cellulose
had started to peel. He had flown into a rage exclaiming
'We're all finished!' But they were not; however the
cellulose spray was replaced immediately by the more
traditional underglaze and the porcelain substituted the
earthenware and production continued, albeit in small
numbers as times were changing and the demand for the '
ladies' was coming to an end. As Iris Carryer confessed,
'We had missed the market.' Who knows now what prices may
have been like had the Jessie Van Hallen ladies been in
porcelain with a high gloss glaze - throughout the
thirties? Staggering probably! And Jessie's fame that
much greater. Jessie's career at Wade was cut short after ten years when, in 1940 the company was obliged to produce industrial ceramics for the war effort and there was, alas no place for her. However she did stay on friendly terms with Sir George Wade until the end of her life. She went on to freelance for a number of local potteries and held the position of art director for Coalport and continued take private commissions. It was during this period that she produced such interesting pieces as Mow Cop Castle, a folly overlooking Scholar Green which she first produced in 1957 and little Moreton Hall, a Staffordshire Elizabethan Manor which was commissioned by The National Trust in 1958 and sold through them for £150 each. She died in July 1983 at the age of 80 and was burried in the churchyard of St Luke's at Mount Pleasant, Mow Cop. After her death her husband agreed that Dilford Pottery could use her moulds and so bears, lovebirds, koala bears and fish were produced with her name in the backstamp even after she had died. And to come full circle, recently Wade Ceramics were offered the opportunity to produce some of the moulds and so in 1999 a pair of penguins and a pair of seals were made. This year, some 70 years after the first Jessie Van Hallen masterpieces where produced in the Manchester Pottery factory, the same factory is once again producing a pair of Jessie Van Hallen clowns and the 'Arundel' cat for the August 6th Swap Meet in Arundel, West Sussex. A small tribute to Jessie Van Hallen, one of the all time 'greats' in the world of ceramics. Jessie Van Hallen Part One For further reading : The Wade Dynasty by Dave Lee : Jessie Van Hallen picture thanks to MIANCO |
Juliet Dilford
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