Dorothy Doughty

Dorothy Susan Doughty (Sanremo 1892 – 6 October 1962) was a British sculptor and potter, much of whose best work was produced for Royal Worcester, specialising in representations of birds.

An entire series of her porcelain birds are exhibited at the Stark Museum of Art in Orange, Texas and The Art Collection at Hebrew Home at Riverdale in Riverdale, New York, and at Audubon House of Pelican Island Audubon Society in Vero Beach, Florida.

Towards the end of her life, she also designed British birds, which were put into production after her death.

She and her sister Freda lived together in Kent, later moving to a cliff-top house with a shared garden studio at Falmouth, Cornwall.

Where Dorothy specialized in birds, Freda's artistic focus was on depictions of children; so popular were two of her designs that they were credited with having "single-handedly kept the factory open" during a sales lull in the 1950s.