My father, Peter Currell Brown (also famous for writing
Smallcreep's Day) used to run a pottery called The Snake Pottery. One of his signature pieces was a beer mug with a frog in the bottom. I have not kept any of these, but if anyone has any information on them, leave a comment.
Sorry. Don't have a mug. But your father's book is one of my all time favourites! Is he still alive? Tania from Footscray Australi
ReplyDeleteHello I have a frog mug and a tankard made by your father, the frog mug is similar to the two you can view on the following links. http://www.studiopottery.com/cgi-bin/pp.cgi?item=03076b http://www.thrownclay.co.uk/brown2.htm
ReplyDeleteThe tankard is taller and finer and i'm actually drinking out of it right now. I bought the tankard at a car boot in Cheltenham on Sunday and then bizarely found the frog mug in a charity shop in Cheltenham today (monday).
Back in the depths of time or about 1968 we ran a small studio pottery where we sold much of Peter's pottery from frog mugs to puzzle jugs and even chess sets. Please update this blog about him today is he still alive...I hope so!
ReplyDeleteReference to Peter Brown's famous Snake pottery is made on my website
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I have a great puzzle. jug signed pcb 1973.
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although this cup may hold good liquor,
fit for parson as for vicar,
to drink it up without complaint
will try the patience of a saint.
quite large with great decoration . mint. are these collectible now??
dont really like it. soo don't. know whether to sell it.
phil@ponytales.co.uk
Hi David, oddly enough I bought one of your fathers mug/tankards today in a charity shop in Hythe (East Kent) It is 5.5" tall and has a frog in the inside base. The words written on the front of the tankard are: 'Who drinks too much and oft regret it, drink last from me and ne'er forget it'
ReplyDeleteKind regards Tom Ryan
Years ago when I was a child I broke a treasured jug of my dads which had 2 frogs inside and the inscription - two toads totally tired tried to trot to tetbury. Have looked for a replacement ever since. Looked very much like a Currell Brown piece.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment. I remember the "two toads" tongue-twister. If I remember rightly it was a special commission, but I don't know the details.
ReplyDeleteHi! I've been trying for years to discover who made the wonderful slipware mug I bought at an English Civil War Society re-enactment back in the early 1980s. It's a deep brown with yellow slip, extraordinarily finely and skilfully decorated, with 'The Earth is the Common Treasury of All' in a roundel on one side, the name of the author of the quote Gerrard Winstanley around it, and the date 1981 on the other side. The only mark on the underside are the letters P B, obviously stamped. Could this be the work of your father? I'd love to know.
ReplyDeleteI have two frog mugs, also a vase and a jug (without frogs). The inscription on the larger mug is:-
ReplyDeleteWe two frogs are only clay and should cause you no dismay. But for us there is no spawning so if we be four it is your fair warning.
This mug is dated 1974 on the base and the other 1975. I bought one at craft fair near Dursley and the other from the studio, around that time.
All pieces have the Snake pottery mark and the mugs have the date, the mark and initials PCB.
Unfortunately the larger mug has had to be repaired so is not in great condition.