William Moorcroft (b.1872 - d.1945)

William Moorcroft, like Bernard Moore, was born in the Potteries and, as with Moore who he knew well, was also a chemist, artist/potter and entrepreneur.

He is famous for his tube-lined decorations which were hugely successful but from 1919 he began to develop flambé glazes, using a specially built kiln. These early undecorated flambé pieces are scarce and although post date the work of Edward Richard Taylor and his son William Howson Taylor at the Ruskin pottery are extremely interesting to glaze heads the world over.

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