We’ve been buying & selling vintage pottery for at least a decade and a half; however, we never stop learning new things. It was only this week that we discovered that some of the vintage Hornsea Pottery mugs we’d previously attributed to John Clappison were actually the work of Jack Dadd.
Dadd was responsible for Hornsea’s newsprint Zoo (1975) and Zoodiac (1977) series of mugs (shown in the montage above). We have a couple of them still available for sale in our web shop.
He also created designs for Staffordshire Potteries including the lovely Zoo children’s breakfast set (top of montage).
I was going to write a couple of paragraphs about his background, but I’ve found the following extract taken from Dynamic Design: The British Pottery Industry 1940-1990 by Kathy Niblett.
