I have a large 24″ charger Brown glaze stoneware with blue shapes and a woman’s face in a quarter moon shape. Her eye is the makers mark I believe. It has a black marker drawn on back which says Coyle/81. I think this was the auctioneer’s mark, not the maker. So far I can not find anything like this nor the mark. It is a quality made item, detail and arrangement of color is superb. Any one ever see anything like this or know the makers mark? Any help would be appreciated.
Hi,
I can’t find the mark in any of my resources, but I did find a Chris Coyle that does stoneware plates. Can’t find any bio info on him really, but these two pages definitely make it seem plausible that he created your plate. Hopefully you can connect with someone from these websites to find out:
http://montgomerypotters.org/home-page/artists/chris-coyle/
http://www.torpedofactoryartists.com/local-events/pottery-with-personality-and-purpose/
There is no glaze on the back. I took high resolution pictures, 16 megs and then put it in PS CS and Bridge CS to move layers around and find copyright marks, see the porosity of the item, etc and the back is not sealed, and the marker is on top of the stoneware. It was not fired, with the rest of it. The back of the charger, shows signs of oval small grind marks, them fine sanded. so the black marker was added later.
Coyle glass does glass, but nothing I could find like this. No foundry or kiln marks on it, a few numbers on the glazed side. But nothing I reference shows them.
Thank you. I’ll keep looking. I thought the eye was a makers mark.
