Topic: whitefriars trial piece?

[stemidd]

hi all,

i bought this unusual red bowl from a whitefriars dealer at a fair some time ago and found it very unusual, he told me he got it from a worker at whitefriars many years ago and it was a trial production piece, the colour looks spot on for friars and i took  him at his word, any of you friars experts out there seen anything like it before?

it looks like a hanging salt bowl but no hole in the hanging bit, so as a trial may not have been finished off?
14 cm diameter x 16 cm high at the longest point.

any expert advice is appreciated

thanks in advance

Steve from Leeds UK.

[NMott]

Even for a trial piece, I don't think the base would be left roughly sanded like that. That would make me suspect it's Chinese, Indian or Mexican.

[stemidd]

i got about 6 other pieces at the same time and all were 100% whitefriars so i had no reason to doubt him

[chriscooper]

Hi Steve, not something I have come across either mate.

Cheers Chris

[NMott]

i got about 6 other pieces at the same time and all were 100% whitefriars so i had no reason to doubt him

I also had no reason to doubt a Whitefriars collector when I bought a jug off him. Turned out to be Polish. 

[Lustrousstone]

As Dr Gregory House says everybody lies

[Paul S.]

Dr. Who ?

[keith]

Or his alias,Bertie Wooster,