Bernard Moore (potter)

“Throughout the 1880s and 1890s it is likely that he was experimenting with and perfecting the specialist and difficult glazes with which his name is now principally associated.”[2] In 1902 he was elected president of the British Ceramic Society.

[1] In 1905 he sold the business and he set up a small factory in Wolfe Street, Stoke-on-Trent, specialising in the production of pottery with flambé glazes and reduced lustre pigments.

[5] Flambé glazes make use of metallic oxides, usually iron or copper, fired to temperatures up to 1500 °C in a flame-burning kiln.

The potter manages the process, which is not entirely predictable, to produce reds, purples, blues, lilacs and greens.

It is technically triumphant, and it is quite delightful (though in a sense disappointing) to find in his show-room a case of pottery - perfect in colour and artistic feeling - which he will not sell, but prefers to retain for mere pride in its accomplishment.”[6] Moore exhibited internationally and received many awards for his ceramics.