Mary Rich is a highly regarded British ceramist, producing pottery from her studios in Cornwall since the early 1960s. Early in her career she worked with Harry and May Davis at their Crowan Pottery at Paze in Cornwall.

Mary Rich studied ceramics at Bournemouth College of Art until 1961, when she went on to work with other significant British ceramicists, including David Leach. In 1962 she opened her first studio in Falmouth where she made salt glaze ceramics.

Mary Rich (British, born 1940). An original studio art pottery vase. A Postwar ceramic work featuring an elegant body and thin trumpet neck and mouth. Decorated in a delicate palette with generous gilding. Artist impressed monogram M to bottom. . Dimensions: 3 X 3 X 3 in. Condition: Good overall condition, having normal surface wear.

Mary was one of Britain's best known potters. She was a Fellow of the Craft Potters Association, a member of the Devon Guild of Craftsmen and a member of the Cornwall Crafts Association. Her pots are hand-thrown in porcelain.

Mary Rich was born in 1940 in Cornwall and set up her first workshop in Falmouth in 1962, having studied painting and ceramics at Bournemouth College of Art, taught by David Ballantyne. In 1961 she spent a year working for David Leach at Bovey Tracey in Devon.

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Lovely miniature porcelain teapot hand thrown by renown potter Mary Rich, lovely decorated with brown horizontal stripes & swirls on a light pink and orange blush porcelain body.

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This is a brown, salt glaze, stoneware teapot and is a signed, early design by Mary Rich, the highly regarded British potter. This is a full size teapot (she was also known for making miniature teapots) and its form is low and wide with an arched cane …

This is a highly collectable little porcelain Art Pottery teapot made by the ceramic artist, Mary Rich (1940 - 2022). It is probably a more specialist item for the collector of contemporary British studio pottery.