National Museum of Australian Pottery
Geoff Ford OAM, FAIHA, and Kerrie Ford FAIHA, are the Owner Directors of the National Museum of Australian Pottery which they established in 1995. Geoff has spent many years researching, lecturing and curating traveling exhibitions on nineteenth and early twentieth century Australian pottery and has written seven books on the subject.
In October 2004 Geoff and Kerrie acquired a lovely old heritage building in Holbrook, New South Wales, which was built in 1910 and traded as a General Store for 94 years. They began refitting it to become the permanent home of the National Museum of Australian Pottery.
The National Museum of Australian Pottery is the only museum dedicated to nineteenth and early twentieth century Australian pottery and is the culmination of many years of collecting and research throughout Australia.
On display are over 1,200 pieces of domestic pottery from over 120 Australian pottery companies established between European settlement and the end of World War I (1918).
Amongst the extensive range of pottery wares, such as simple preserving jars, jugs, colourful cheese covers, beautiful bread plates and elegantly decorated water filters, are a few rare examples of pottery made by the convict potter Jonathan Leak, who's few surviving pieces are the earliest marked pottery produced in Australia.
Also on display are over 100 original photographs, showing the interior and exterior of many potteries, exhibition displays and portraits of the potters along with catalogues, price lists, potters' tools and numerous old advertisements.
The collection represents in many ways the struggle, courage and determination by many of Australia's early potters whom, often under difficult circumstances, produced basic and decorative domestic pottery, frequently with spectacular results. It covers the whole spectrum of domestic wares used in and around nineteenth and early twentieth century homes throughout Australia, and affords the visitor a unique opportunity to further their knowledge and appreciation of our early Australian pottery heritage.
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