Lyndale Moss pottery
made in Melbourne, Australia 1950s
It’s Australia Day! Not celebrated or acknowledged by all Australians- but – who could resist this Australiana?
These are Lyndale Moss gum-leaf vases, and a eucalypt vase. It’s the 50s, and nationalism is starting to become a cultural force. Art potteries everywhere are forgoing the English rose for Australian-themed flora. And producing vases in all manner of colours [to suit the 50s décor]: pink, blue, yellow, black, spotted and drip-glazed: but for my money, the lovely matt-white is the best.
Lyndale didn’t sign the pottery- they relied on semi-permanent stickers [in gilt writing, no less] to note the maker. It’s rare that these stickers survived from the 50s, so if you find one with the sticker in-tact- you are sitting on a gold mine.
Happy Australia Day! Wherever and however you celebrate; these vases are for sale: $AU45
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