No good library of British art pottery literature is complete without a copy of Paul Atterbury’s Moorcroft. The jacket illustration alone with its myriad tube-lined miniatures in a bewildering range of forms and patterns is particularly memorable. More than one collector has attempted to emulate the beguiling display.
Among them was the UK enthusiast who, after a 35-year collecting odyssey, closed his account to a packed room at Worcestershire auction house Kingham & Orme (20% buyer’s premium) earlier this month.
The June 15 sale in Evesham dispersed 364 lots of Moorcroft for a total of just under £200,000, with all bar 15 lots sold.