Welcome to www.isleofwightpottery.com
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Ken Scotcher Chessell Pottery Joe Lester
Photos © Lisa Dowden
| This site is dedicated to pottery and ceramics made in the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom, past and present. |
| Andrew and Lisa Dowden of Buttercup Cottage Books are Isle of Wight pottery enthuasiasts, writers and publishers, whose main aim is to raise the profile of pottery and ceramics in the Isle of Wight — past and present. |
'Far back in the remote ages of antiquity the first potter lived. Who he was, or where he worked, there is no possibility of knowing, but his life and labour are facts which are demonstrated by the existence of claywork today.' |
C F Binns, 1898, 'The Story of the Potter', p9