Enoch Boulton - An Unsung Hero of British Populist Art Deco

Crown devon's chief designer and Design Manager, Enoch Boulton, is one of the unsung heros of populist Art Deco pottery ware in the United Kingdom.

Reputation of designers of antique or vintage pottery are very much in the hands of people who write about them now. In the pottery world, women designers from the Art Deco period appear to have attracted the most attention from contemporary writers. Books about such Art Deco luminaries as Clarice Cliff and Suzy Cooper have created large and enthusiastic markets, pushing prices into the stratosphere.

Never-the-less, there were many male and female designers of that period in the United Kingdom who made major contributions to both the industry and Art Deco design in general and little is heard about them. Carltonware's Violet Elmer barely gets a mention in the numerous books written about the output of Wiltshire and Robinson and books on Fieldings Crown Devon by Susan Hill and Ray Barker fail to laud the work and the sheer volume of output of one of Staffordshire's most prolific designers, Enoch Boulton.

I have been an avid fan of Boutlon's work since I began collecting several decades ago, and a sense of injustice at the failure of commentators and writers to acknowledge Boulton's contribution has driven me to do something about it.

Many of the essays available on this blog review an astonishing body of work of this quiet and reserved man of great talent.

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