J. Palin Thorley (1892–1987) Mid Century 1950s Whiteware Bowl. Thorley placed a very shiny ground color on both sides of this bowl, leaving a white reserve only on the interior bottom. The gold is still quite lustrous. Hand Signed "Palin Thorley Williamsburg Virginia”. Measures 9"x9"x2 1/2". Weight 1 pd 3 oz. Palin Thorley was a third-generation potter who trained as a decorative painter and designer with England’s most prestigious companies including Wedgwood. He brought his talents to America’s large industrial potteries and then to Colonial Williamsburg where he supplied the newly-established Craft House museum shop with reproductions of eighteenth-century antiques from their collections. A master of variety, Thorley created avant garde moderne serving sets as well as more traditional Colonial Revival-style table wares. Over 150 examples of Thorley’s work, accompanied by magazine advertisements that span his career from the 1920s through the 1970s, offer a lively and personal story about the twentieth-century dining room table in America.

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