Size:  23 cm tall, belly approx 14 cm wide.

Condition: Excellent condition, no chips cracks or restoration.

An attractive late medieval style flagon with stylised incised decoration of leaves and flowers, the inside and rim finished with an ash glaze.

Andrew McGarva (born 1956) set up his own workshop in 1979 at Wobage Farm Pottery under Mick and Sheila Casson after training at Farnham School of Art.  He was always interested in traditional country pottery and his early work, of which this is an example, was salt glaze, often imitating the early German and British salt glaze potters of the 16th and 17th centuries. From the mid 1980's Andrew's work turned increasingly to hand painted stoneware in the style of English tin-glazed earthenware. In 1990 Andrew moved to France where he continues to make pots. Unfortunately he no longer sells direct to the UK.  Andrew McGarva is author of "Country Pottery, Traditional Earthenware of Britain", published by A&C Black (2000), which demonstrates his long held interest in the history of the potteries, the personalities and the contemporary interpretations and uses of these traditions.