| During
this period of considerable design creativity the
Coles
described their work as “Coming from The Rye Design Group- under the tutelage of Jack
Cole”; two other popular designs of this period were the complex 17th century design
Lambeth, a hand painted chequer board with
stars inside a latticework
and the more
contemporary Mosaic, both were used
for coffee sets and
various items of tableware.
Standard Mosaic
mugs being painted by Pam Goddard and Madge Bottomley
mid 1950s
Miss
Simplicity a charming set of bottles from the Rye Design
Group in the 1950s
It
was during this same period
that ranges
of vases, jardinieres, lamps, bowls & dishes
were being painted in the Scraffito textures
for which Rye became particularly known.
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A method of applying colour all over the unfired
glazed area which was then scratched through to
the white glaze beneath ,or conversely the white
was scratched and the coloured oxides applied
over the top.
Textured dishes1950’s
However,
it was the from the late fifties that Rye began
to concentrate on complete ranges of tableware; starting with
the Cottage & Candy stripes peasant floral
designs which were then joined in the early
sixties by
the more sophisticated
dark metallic Cadborough
Brown range and later by its pale counter part Rye Stone.
Cadborough Brown Coffee ware
early 1960’s
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