Myott

The history of Myott covers a long span of time up to the present day but for our purposes, Myott began producing in the 1930s an extensive range of hand painted Art Deco wares. The change of direction away from more traditional ware may have been as a result of the success of competitor firms in the Potteries. Famous designers such as Clarice Cliff and Susie Cooper were enjoyng huge success and many other firms were not slow in jumping on the Art Deco bandwagon. Myott must have had a great deal of success too as the number of surviving pieces is large and it is possible to pick up a nice example quite cheaply.

The output of Art Deco vases, jugs and wall pockets, pieces in brighter colours are highly sought after. Orange and brown were the dominant colours used for decoration.To many people the decoration can be seen as crude in the extreme and look almost childish in their execution. In addition many of the pieces suffer from paint flaking and glaze crazing which reduces value considerably. However collectors may have to suffer imperfect examples of some of the rarer shapes and patterns as availability of some of the pieces can be extremely limited today.

In contrast to the output of other firms, Myott Art Deco designs are anonymous. Not only are their designers unidentified but a fire at the Myott works in 1949 reportedly destroyed the firm's records and pattern books; that makes it difficult to reconstruct the chronology and range of Myott's Art Deco output, particularly as pieces are neither signed nor dated.