Description
Another large darker vase, with top handles and a smaller with side handles. Plus two cups.
Ernest James Theodore (Theo) Mashman (1895-1964), potter, was born on 19 August 1895 at Willoughby, Sydney.
Elder son of Henry Mashman (1856-1922), potter, and his second wife Elizabeth Simpson, née Wieland, a widow.
Theo, as he was known, represented the second generation of Mashmans in Australia.
In the 1930s Theo Mashman was presented as the model, go-ahead, Australian manufacturer, patriotic returned serviceman and sportsman, avid motorist and yachtsman.
He revived the firm’s interest in art-ware with a promotional appeal to ‘Australian-made, Australian workmen, Australian artists and Australian clay’.