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History of China Decorating at Glyn-Coch
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Jean Evans came here from Royal Worcester in 1965. Since then she has done a lot of freelance work including commissions for Royal Worcester, Cadw, the RAF and Cadburys. Her main love, however was painting the flowers and wildlife which surrounded her at Glyn-Coch.
In the early 80s changes in farming resulted in diversification into decorating bone china with transfers of Jean's floral designs. They set up a company, Glyn-Coch Designs, to decorate the china and it was a great success, so much so that the company moved to Tenby in 1995, though it kept using the St Clears address on the back stamp that appears on the bottom of the china.
In 1995 Nick and Elaine Evans bought the buildings and 27 acres of Glyn-Coch Farm, and let the old cowshed to a potter, Richard Hill who slip cast porcelain here until 1999. In the spring of 2000 Nick and Elaine moved to Llawhadden and Huw and Thelma Jones bought what had become known as Glyn-Coch Studios, and of course the buildings and land.
The Present
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When Huw and Thelma bought Glyn-Coch Farm in 2000 they decided to continue with the activities that had previously been carried on here and two years later were lucky to meet Jean Evans who, by then had retired from most of her china painting interests was very interested in our commitment to pottery and was keen keen that we should follow in the Glyn-Coch tradition of china painting. Soon she was making designs for us and teaching us how to transfer them to china, and for the last few years we have been practicing the techniques and testing the market, under the Glyn-Coch Studios name which we had bought from our predecessors. Our back stamp includes our Norfolk Horn ewe logo.
Our current product range includes basic earthenware kitchenware, Thelwen Art Pottery and jewelry (which Thelma makes on an occasional basis with our friend Wendy Wright) and Bone China decorated with Jean's designs or with our own photographs. We make or decorate to sell in our own, or other shops, and special one-off items to celebrate individual weddings, christenings, graduations, promotions, town twinnings etc.. We also make or decorate china for other businesses, for example to celebrate Women's Institutes' or Young Farmer's Club's anniversaries, for local museums to sell in their gift shops, novelty items to pack into food hampers and specially decorated plates for charity auctions. We are currently working on a batch of bone china mugs decorated with ladies in national costume for gift shop of a nationally famous tourist attraction in the capital.
The Future
The team are always planning new designs, and will always produce items on commission if someone asks. We are now experimenting with some attractive ceramic buttons, which we launched at Wonder Wool Wales 2009 at Builth Wells.
In these difficult times we are coming out to you more and more as you can see from our Exhibitions and Shows Calendar and we are making more use of our ebay shop.
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Catalogue
See notes on price, availability, postage etc. at end of table. This is only part of our range. Please ask us if you don't see what you want.
(Our CHINA DECORATING SERVICE uses many of the BONE CHINA items listed below. For (details including prices) about this service please contact us. )
| Thelwen Art Pottery (Earthenware) | Price range from £20 - £200 |
| Thelwen Art Pottery Jewelry (Earthenware) | Price range from £5-£30 |
| Glyn-Coch Studios Kitchenware (Earthenware) | Price range from £5 - £30 |
| Hand painted bone china | Price range £15 - £50 |
| Transfer decorated bone china | Price range £6-£30 |
| Photograph decorated bone china | Price range £5-£15 |
| Approx dimensions | Price correct at 1st March 2009 | |
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1) Height Diameter Thelwen Art Pottery: Not for food use. |
Part of our range of Thelwen Art Pottery, made and hand painted at Glyn-Coch. The
beautiful decoration is applied freehand, and decoration
often takes several separate painting and firing stages. Yours for only
£20.00 to £200.00 + postage Watch for new items in this space! |
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Ceramic buttons c 2cm dia. Range to be launched at Wonder
Wool Wales
Price £TBA Thelwen Art China |
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2) | One for farm machinery enthusiasts. An earthenware mug
decorated with a photograph of our own very rare David Brown 2D tractor.
£5.75 |
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3)
Height 8cm |
Small earthenware jugs, slip cast at Glyn-Coch in a variety of colours labelled in Welsh or English or language of your choice. Can be unlabelled. Jugs illustrated labelled 'Saws mint', 'Llaeth', and 'Milk'. £6.50 each |
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4)
Height c 8cm |
Novelty sheep mugs. One side has head molded and glazed,
the other has tail. We have produced batches of these for a commercial
customer, and they are also very popular in our own shop. Each face is
painted differently. (We also produce cat and dragon mugs.)
£4.25 |
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5)
17cm diameter |
This freehand design was inspired by O'Neils pottery at
the Irish National Folk Museum, but instead of a traditional Irish
building this shows our own pottery.
£7.50 |
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6)
17cm diameter |
Another freehand design. Of course, all our sheep must
have black faces!
£7.50 |
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7)
17 cm diameter |
Each snowman is different, but they all include the same
components.
£7.50 |
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8)
Storage Jars in various colours Heights Large 14cm, Medium 12cm, Small 11cm. |
Popular standard storage jars, labeled in Welsh or
English, (as jugs above) or left blank. Price depends on size
Large £9.50, Medium £8.50, Small £7.50 |
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9)
Garlic Jar. Height 15cm |
Daffodil design is cut into side of jar to provide
ventilation.
£9.50 |
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Back stamp
You should see this on the base of all items we have decorated. (Glyn-Coch Designs used a floral pattern as logo and various texts which always included "Glyn-Coch Designs, St Clears" even during the period 1995 to 2007 when they were based in Tenby.) |
All our bone china has the sheep on its base. If there is no sheep we did not decorate it. Usually it says either hand painted (when we painted onto an outline transfer) or hand decorated, meaning we used a full colour transfer. Commissions may include our customer's name. The green 'JE' is Jean Evan's paintress's mark on items she hand painted. Thelma uses 'TJ'. The Bone China we decorate is bought from companies in the UK. |
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10)
Height 10cm |
Hand painted Churn Jug
£24.00 |
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11)
Height 7.5cm |
Hand painted daffodil Cup with plain saucer
£15.00 |
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12)
Height 19cm |
Hand painted Daffodil Vase
£50.00 |
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13)
Height 10cm |
Hand painted Daffodil Planter
£22.00 |
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14)
Diameter 15cm |
Hand painted Daffodil Plate
£15.00 |
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15)
Height 13.5cm |
Hand painted Daffodil salt and pepper pot.
£26.00 |
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16)
Height 15cm |
Hand painted Daffodil Tea pot
£32.00 |
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17)
Height 7.5cm |
Hand painted pansy cup
£ TBA |
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18)
Height 8.5cm |
Hand painted pansy jug
£18.00 |
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19)
Height 8.5cm |
Hand painted pansy stacker mug
£15.00 |
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20)
Height 5cm |
Hand painted pansy sugar bowl
£20.00 |
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21)
Height 18 cm |
Hand painted pansy vase
£40.00 |
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22)
Height 12.5cm |
Hand painted pansy teapot
£27.00 |
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23)
Height 16.5cm |
Hand painted puffin churn jug
£32.50 |
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24)
Height 9cm All items (except plates) decorated with Puffins have Thrift on the back. |
Hand painted puffin covered sugar basin
£26.50 each |
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25)
Height 10.5cm |
Hand painted puffin jug
£28.00 |
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26)
Diameter 15cm |
Hand painted puffin plate
£20.00
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27)
Height 15 cm |
Hand painted puffin tea pot
£42.00 |
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28)
Height 8cm |
Transfer decorated Dylan Thomas' Boat House tankard mug
£8.70 |
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29)
Diameter 10cm |
Transfer decorated Castell Coch Trinket pot
£12.50 |
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30)
Height 11.5cm |
Transfer decorated coracle mug
£8.70 |
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31)
Height 8cm |
Transfer decorated Daffodil Tankard Mug
£8.70 |
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32)
Diameter 10cm |
Transfer decorated Daffodil Trinket pot
£12.50 |
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33)
Height 8cm |
Transfer decorated Red Kite Tankard Mug £8.70 |
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34)
Height 8cm |
Transfer decorated Welsh Mountain Ram Tankard Mug
£8.70 |
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35)
Height 10cm |
Transfer decorated Welsh Lady spinners plain mug
£6.40 |
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36)
Height 11.5cm |
Transfer decorated Welsh Lady spinners taper mug
£8.50 |
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37)
Height 11cm |
Transfer decorated Wayside Posy mug
£8.70 |
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38)
Height 11cm |
Transfer decorated Wayside Posy mug
£6.50 |
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39)
Height 7.5cm Diameter 17cm |
Transfer decorated Wayside Posy bowl
£30.00 |
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40)
Height 10cm |
Photograph decorated Norfolk Horn Ewe mug
£5.50 |
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41)
Height 10cm |
Photograph decorated Norfolk Horn Ram mug
£5.50 |
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42)
Height 10cm |
Photograph decorated Norfolk Horn Yearling mug
£5.50 |
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43)
Height 8.5cm |
Photograph decorated Spinning Wheel Stacker Mug
£6.50 |
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44)
Height 11cm |
Photograph decorated Spinning Wheel twist mug
£6.50 |
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Prices correct at 1/3/09. Postage extra. You are advised to come and look before buying, as items may vary slightly from illustration, but we will e-mail larger pictures to you, if you can't get here.
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Postage costs will vary due to size and weight of your order, but we usually send at the cheapest relevant Royal Mail postage rate, as we find that it is usually cheaper then actual charge by 'budget carriers'. Larger orders will, of course, go by suitable courier.
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Most items are available from stock, but some may have to be produced for you.
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Bone china to existing designs can be decorated in about 2 weeks, new designs will take 2 months. Earthenware takes about 4 weeks in summer (depending on workload), but clay takes longer to dry in winter, so allow 2 months.
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All bone china is dishwasher proof and food safe, unless we say otherwise. Non-gilded items can also be micro waved. We have used some bone china items in our tearoom, and in the house, for several years with no deterioration.
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Basic earthenware kitchen ware is also hardwearing and food safe.
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Thelwen Art China is for decorative use only, and should not be used for food. Glazes used should give many years of decorative use.
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All bone china decoration, except photographs, is designed by Jean Evans. Earthenware is designed by Thelma Jones. Thelwen Art Pottery is designed by Wendy Wright and Thelma Jones.
To order contact us at Glyn-Coch Craft Centre, Ffynnongain Lane, Pwll-Trap, St Clears, Carmarthenshire, Wales. SA33 4AR. Phone 01994 231867 or e-mail. From time to time some items will also be on our e-bay shop.
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