Cloisonné by Albert and Glyn Colledge, 1956

Designed in 1956 and issued from 1957. The decorations were by Glyn, and used his special reactive glazes; the body shapes were by his father, Albert. Cloisonné consisted of functional household pieces. It should not to be confused with the similar, but more rare and valuable Cheviot range (showpieces with coloured abstract and sgraffito patterns on a black ground). Some eBay sellers list Cloisonné pieces as Cheviot. Stoneware.

Dish with three Kings
Mint, appears unused. Value: £20-40

Dish with wine bottles and glasses
Fabulous piece this; I love it. Very 1950s. Mint, appears unused. Value: £40-60

Cruet set
With classic 1950s boomerang-shaped base and amoeba or bacteria pattern in applied slip. The base has the Glyn Colledge printed signature and the BOURNE DENBY stamp (used in the late fifties and early sixties). All pieces are in perfect, unused condition. Value: £20-40

Set of 6 coasters
Depicting a range of vegetables and abstract shapes. Boxed and unused (the pale blue box has some foxing, and has corrugated cardboard inserts. It fits in turn into a corrugated cardboard sleeve. This is presumably the original packing; it has no printing or labels, however). Value: £80-120

Burlington by Albert and Glynn Colledge, 1956

Another father-and-son collaboration. Burlington is ribbed, and has applied slip trails. The earlier issues were black; later, sky-blue and mulit-coloured versions followed. Burlington was produced in a range of shapes, including plant pots, bowls, cruet sets and jugs. Stoneware.

Tigo Ware (c. 1956)

Designed by Tibor Reich, F.S.I.A. (b. 1916, d. 1996)

Tigo Ware was backstamped simply MADE IN ENGLAND and carried a paper Tigo Ware label.

Photo courtesy of the excellent eBay seller antiquesavenue

Madar (bird) figure and Tisza Syrup jug
As featured in an advertisement by Tibor Reich in Design magazine (1956) for his fabrics. Interesting piece of cross-promotion. A madar bird appeared recently on The Antiques Roadshow, and the collector said it had orginally fetched around 800 pounds at auction. As a mark of how dismal the Antiques Roadshow is at posmodern design, the only one of their army of dinosaur-like 'experts' who has any knowledge of the field is the rather over-stretched Paul Atterbury (who has become the proverbial Jack-of-all-trades and master of none, covering the multitude of yawning gaps in the knowledge of the other experts). The gaps in Atterbury's own knowlege were rather cruelly exposed when he admitted that he had 'never seen' tigo ware in the flesh, and then misvalued the Rendezvous plate at "I would guess" 400 pounds (way too high).

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Tibor Ltd.

This is a convenient place to mention other aspects of Budapest-born Tibor Reich's work. Reich ran a designer fabrics company, Tibor Ltd. of Stratford-on-Avon. Some of his fabric patterns, inspired by textural effects in black and white photographs, and marketed under the name 'Fotexur'. Note, in the two centre adverts below, that the stylised 'T' of TIBOR is identical in shape to his star (Pusta) dish in Denby's Tigo Ware range.