Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
Crown Lynn Potteries Limited - Shape Guide, 1946 - 1984
Primary Maker
Date
1946-1984
Physical Description
Collection
Level of Current Record
Single Item
Provenance Details
Provenance: The Applied Arts copy was made from Crown Lynn modeller Tam Mitchell's books with permission from Director Tom Clark, 1984.
Subject Notes
In the late 1930s Tom Clark began making porcelain tiles and electrical fittings alongside his family's brick and pipe works in New Lynn. By 1970 Crown Lynn was the biggest pottery in the Southern Hemisphere, with 500 staff turning out 15 million pieces of china each year. Then in the 1980s changing economic conditions undermined profitability and the factory was shut down in 1989. [Source: Monk, Valerie Ringer. 'Crown Lynn : a New Zealand icon', Penguin, Auckland, 2006]
Last Update
07 Jul 2023
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