Designer
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Oven Master
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Maker
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Marks
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24k gold stamped to base
“Oven to Table Oven Master Australia”
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Description
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Square straight sided with rounded corners. Pink exterior with white interior, transfer print to base of various game birds. Unglazed rims with 24k gold trim on exterior. Hole to base of handle shows ramekins were mass produced.
Tureen is oval with similar markings, but no interior transfers. Measures 29cm from handle to handle, 22cm wide, 8.5cm high without lid and approx. 16cm high from the top of knob on the lid. In good condition with no marks or chips.
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Number
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Production Date
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Width
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102mm
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Depth
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50mm
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Length (with handle)
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150mm
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Weight
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250gm
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Volume
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375ml
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Acquisition
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A nice Russian lady at the Camberwell Sunday Market.
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Well-made factory produced high quality ceramics and glazing. Gold (originally would have had a sticker which said 24k gold guaranteed) trim denotes a high cost product. No information available on “Oven Master”. Any information would be appreciated. Currently, there is a New Zealand Company called “Ovenmaster”, making a variety of LPG cookers and BBQs. They manufacture, import and distribute appliances and accessories for boats, motorhomes, caravans and remote homes. If they are the OvenMaster, then maybe, many years ago they had someone local to make these items on their behalf.
That someone was probably Nilsen Porcelain Australia, then operating near Bendigo in Victoria. Nilsen made a whole variety of porcelain in pre-war Australia, (see my post on Servex). These pre-war ramekins are decorated with a form of transfer that would have been unthinkable after the second world war. Whoever made them at Nilsen then probably moved on to Diana because this colour and glaze reappears in some of their earlier work. Similar clay, glaze and gold trim can be seen on the rare Diana marked teapot that turns up from time to time. This gold trim is reminiscent of the Austrian Augarten Porcelain.
What may be confusing is the use of English game bird transfer prints to the outside of the tureen and the inside base of the ramekins. This pottery is unlike most Dianaware of the time, but it is Diana. The Technique when Gold is applied to the edge of decoration is called "Lining". The Gold used is normally 14K, 18K or 22K. The liquid gold decoration is normally fired at approximately 750o – 850oc. Lining is always done by hand. During the second world war (1941) Eric Lowe, a Sydney potter got Government contracts to produce ceramic wares for the armed forces.
After the war, he changed production to domestic pottery and throughout the 1950s, Diana was the largest and most prolific pottery in New South Wales, producing hundreds of different products and designs. In the mid 1960s, they (Diana Pottery (Vic) Pty Ltd) had a shop in Melbourne at 343 Little Collins Street. I think it fair to say that you would have had a piece of Diana pottery in yours or your parents home at some stage, probably a mixing bowl or vase.
The pottery was located at 122-126 Marrickville Road, Marrickville, Sydney and it continued until the mid 1960s, when cheap copies caused a decline in sales. Check out the Diana website for lots more examples of their output. Also, a potter at Bendigo Pottery told me that the conveyor that moves the pottery around the Bendigo Pottery today is said to have come from the old Diana Pottery after it closed in 1974. Marks include hand signed "Diana Australia", impressed "Diana" enclosed in a circle , "Diana Australia" with an imprint of the "Huntress", and stickers "Diana Made in Australia".
That someone was probably Nilsen Porcelain Australia, then operating near Bendigo in Victoria. Nilsen made a whole variety of porcelain in pre-war Australia, (see my post on Servex). These pre-war ramekins are decorated with a form of transfer that would have been unthinkable after the second world war. Whoever made them at Nilsen then probably moved on to Diana because this colour and glaze reappears in some of their earlier work. Similar clay, glaze and gold trim can be seen on the rare Diana marked teapot that turns up from time to time. This gold trim is reminiscent of the Austrian Augarten Porcelain.
What may be confusing is the use of English game bird transfer prints to the outside of the tureen and the inside base of the ramekins. This pottery is unlike most Dianaware of the time, but it is Diana. The Technique when Gold is applied to the edge of decoration is called "Lining". The Gold used is normally 14K, 18K or 22K. The liquid gold decoration is normally fired at approximately 750o – 850oc. Lining is always done by hand. During the second world war (1941) Eric Lowe, a Sydney potter got Government contracts to produce ceramic wares for the armed forces.
After the war, he changed production to domestic pottery and throughout the 1950s, Diana was the largest and most prolific pottery in New South Wales, producing hundreds of different products and designs. In the mid 1960s, they (Diana Pottery (Vic) Pty Ltd) had a shop in Melbourne at 343 Little Collins Street. I think it fair to say that you would have had a piece of Diana pottery in yours or your parents home at some stage, probably a mixing bowl or vase.
The pottery was located at 122-126 Marrickville Road, Marrickville, Sydney and it continued until the mid 1960s, when cheap copies caused a decline in sales. Check out the Diana website for lots more examples of their output. Also, a potter at Bendigo Pottery told me that the conveyor that moves the pottery around the Bendigo Pottery today is said to have come from the old Diana Pottery after it closed in 1974. Marks include hand signed "Diana Australia", impressed "Diana" enclosed in a circle , "Diana Australia" with an imprint of the "Huntress", and stickers "Diana Made in Australia".
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