William & Walter Moorcroft
The Cotswold Gift Gallery has an extensive collection of classic pieces designed by William and Walter Moorcroft. They date from 1897 to the 1950s, an era that most collectors consider contains Moorcroft Pottery’s finest work.
Read more >>Many collectors love the old Moorcroft patterns because of the sublime delicacy of the fine tubelining, a skill now sadly lost. Others are attracted to the depth of colour that cannot be replicated by today′s potters – again in part because of lost skills, but also because of the oxides that were used in the process.
We will never see the like of these pieces again.
For the best, most perceptive, in-depth study of William Moorcroft and his work, we cannot recommend too highly William Moorcroft, Potter: Individuality by Design by Jonathan Mallinson, available online here.
The Cotswold Gift Gallery has an extensive collection of classic pieces designed by William and Walter Moorcroft. They date from 1897 to the 1950s, an era that most collectors consider contains Moorcroft Pottery’s finest work.
