"I'm a pottaholic!" Exclaimed Eric Knowles, off of the Antiques Roadshow, at a conference in New York when introducing the History if Moorcroft Potters. It was with anecdote he began his talk last night at the De Morgan centre. Moorcroft established himself as a potter in Stoke -on-Trent a hundred years ago, following the success of his designs in the 1897 studio of James McIntyre. The Moorcroft reputation was fiercely and quite suddenly elevated to speciality status through a contract with Libery in the early 1900s.
William Moorcroft, who started the firm, was a contempory of Morris an his circle and would have undoubtedly been influenced my De Morgan; another key figure in ceramics and art pottery of the time. The company is still alive and flourishing today. Much because of the influence of the still alive and flourishing Eric Knowles.
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