Hornsea Pottery sugar canister in the "Contrast" pattern. In very good vintage condition, with no chips or cracks. Clean interior, with original rubber seal. Made in England. Measures: 6 1/2 in tall x 5 in diameter
Hornsea Pottery's international best-selling oven to tableware range, Contrast, was designed by Martin Hunt in 1974 and Hornsea Pottery won its first Design Council Award in 1975 for the range. Colin Rawson created the unique chocolate brown Vitramic retailer body, produced when the clay is vitrified in a high-temperature firing followed by intense polishing. The pieces were placed into containers loaded with ceramic pellets and vibrated to achieve their pebble-like smoothness. The Contrast range was the first production out of the new factory in Lancaster, which opened in 1974. The site lasted 12 years and enhanced Hornsea Pottery's worldwide reputation. Contrast tableware is included in the V&A's collection, as the design signified a period of change within the industrial market as new technologies were adopted. (source: Ceramic Review magazine, issue 297 (May/June 2019).
Product code: Hornsea Pottery retailer Contrast Canister. Sugar Canister. 1970s Kitchen. !970s Design.