Walter Bosse was an Austrian designer who specialised in designing and making Pottery figures and ceramics and later on metal items. My interest is in the Pottery period and Bosse had 2 main groups of ceramics which he designed and manufactured. Between 1924 and 1936 he worked in his own studio in Kufstein, in the Tyrol, South Austria where he produced his best work in Terracotta producing Pottery figures, vases, plant pots and various small holders for flowers or ashtrays. This period was his best period and items from this time are very collectable, rare and attractive to display due to the clever use of colours in his pieces. Its difficult to say how many pieces of each figure there are but not to many because they are easy to break being terracotta. It is also common and acceptable to buy pieces with restoration or minor damage as Teracotta is very brittle but easy to repair. In the 50s and 60s after much business turbulence including bankruptcy, Bosse worked together with the Karlsruhe Majolica factory in Germany where he designed many animals in pottery with a crackle glazing effect. These items are very collectable in Germany and Austria and are also affordable. They are also more easily obtainable because they were produced in larger quantities.
Most items were produced in a blue colour but other colours are also available in small quantities. He mainly designed Zoo animals but also rabbits which he seemed to like. The Karlsruhe items are mostly not marked although the design is distinctive and easy to recognise.
I concentrate my collection on the above 2 mentioned areas although later Bosse designed and produced together with Hagenauer many different metal pieces which are also very collectable.
Myott, Son & Co. Limited originally operated from the Alexander Pottery in Stoke, Staffordshire, in the North of England. It was a family run business producing earthenware from 1898. Run by two brothers, Ashley and Sydney Myott, the company soon had to expand to meet growing demand. They moved to the Brownfield’s Works in Cobridge, just North of Stoke-on-Trent and then extended the operation to the adjacent Upper Hanley Pottery in 1925.
With the growing success of competitor output, the company began to produce hand painted Art Deco wares, popularised by their varied ranges of vases and jugs. Many of these pieces survive today suggesting that output was extensive. Geometric shapes such as the fan and pyramid vase are highly sought after with brown and orange the dominant colours used in decoration. There were also a number of collaborations in the 1930,s, most notably with Goldscheider (an Austrian figure and wall mask producer) and B.A.G Co. Ltd (British American Glass). These Deco pieces display the famous gold Myott crown mark on the base. White ware was produced for the Cunard shipping company with the provision of cubist style tea sets.
There was a fire at the factory in 1949 in which many of the office files were destroyed including vital pattern information. In 1969 Myott were taken over by an American corporation Interpace. 1976 saw the company merge with Alfred Meakin Limited and the name was then lost after the company was taken over by the Churchill Group.
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