Moorcroft Art Pottery:Collectors will always buzz around these pottery pieces
Though the Moorcroft brand of high quality handmade art pottery grew out of a design studio within a large ceramics factory over a hundred years ago, history shows a re-emergence in the mid-1980s to early 1990s of a strong business model again and the production of the beautiful and colourful designs that are well known around the world. The auction houses of the world have also picked up on this, and the market for all Moorcroft items is very buoyant and good prices are paid. This is also the case for online trading of secondhand pottery pieces - vases,lamps,bowls and other tableware- most notably on eBay.
It was in the ‘new ‘ period 1987-1989,with a new design team under the leadership of the Chairman Hugh Edwards,that the Honeycomb patterns were created.There were only about 1,000 pieces of this particular design produced so these items coming-up for sale can command a premium price.
The above vase, together with many other very collectable pieces from other decades, is currently for sale on eBay.