Vintage British porcelain vase Hornsea Fauna 19

VINTAGE
British porcelain vase
HORNSEA FAUNA
Puppy and Turtle 19






Vase has hairline crack,
otherwise good condition
(see picture below)



approx. 8 centimeters height and 13 1/2 centimeters long.


The Fauna range was one of Hornsea's biggest sellers. Usually in the form of posies or vases, a huge variety of "fluffy" animals were produced. Produced between 1954-59.

Hornsea Pottery was a business located in the seaside town of Hornsea in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was founded in 1949 in a small terraced house by brothers Colin and Desmond Rawson with initial funding from a friend and local business man, Philip Clappison. The factory's earliest pieces were mostly designed by Colin Rawson, these included Character Jugs and posy vases with attached animal figures.
Their products sold well and they moved larger premises and took on their first employee in 1950. The continued expansion of the business brought about a move to an even larger site, at Edenfield, in 1954. At this time the business diversified and the Edenfield site became the first theme park in Britain. In 1984 the initial company foundered due to outside forces and financial difficulties and it was bought out in April of that year. Despite its difficulties, the factory continued to produce tableware and ornaments until April 2000 when it went into final receivership.

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