Large Australian Pottery shell, E.G. Greenway Melbourne, c. 1935
$145.00 AUD
Australian Pottery shell centrepiece, the naturalistic nautilus-type shell on a spreading foot, the whole glazed in a pleasant cream glaze with ochre highlights.
Circular applied mark ‘E G GREENWAY PTY LTD / AUSTRALIA’
circa 1935
Excellent condition
26x18cm, 15.5 cm high
Ellen Grant Greenway was a nurse by training, but started painting pottery at her Northcote home in 1930, using blanks she purchased from Melbourne pot works. These were marked ‘Lesley Pottery’, and signed by her. They are often damaged due to the technique she used, oil paints beneath a varnish finish that breaks down with time. In 1940, she and her husband Herbert relocated to Fitzroy, where they worked together on a new range they called ‘Mayfair Pottery’ . This was mostly slip-cast, and included fashionable forms for the time, finished in some attractive mottled glazes. In 1944 they created the E.G. Greenway company, and planned a modern stylish factory. Sadly, Ellen died in 1946. Herbert built the factory at 127 White Horse Road, Blackburn, in her memory. He continued the pottery for the next two decades, until he died in 1971; the factory closed in 1975.
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