Crown Lynn Swans

I am very proud of my swan collection.

Firstly the lustre glaze 170

Small trickle glaze 154s

The small 154 with coloured beak and eyes

The 2147 Medium Swan

The very elegant white 170




I have just noticed we do not have this one in our gallery!!!

This one is sometimes known as the Male Swan - also numbered 170

And last, but not least, the big and beautiful Crown Lynn Black 170 Swan

Oh they look beautiful Heather !!!!
thanks for sharing your babies

Today I had a new addition to the family - a lovely light blue 154 from Drummonds.

Hi Heather,
fantastic collection of swans you have there, regards Rudolf

Why thank you Rudolf! I am working on getting another one from tm but dont know if I can afford it...

This is from a 40s or 50s era plastic curtain.

Thanks for washing the nicotene off it first, thought I think there may still be a flyspot...

It is, however, very pretty...

This week I have two new additions to the swan family...

Firstly a teal and beige little 154...



and secondly another shade of green



so this is my swan shelf now...

Part of the Thorburn collection currently on loan to a small Sydney collection - the Better-get-these-in-the-post collection:



This small mixed race family consists of a Kiwi father and a mother of unknown origin. For some reason, hybrid vigour perhaps, their child is shinier and more ornamented than either parent.

Swans mate for life but are discouraged from demonstrating this on the kitchen bench.

Certainly a duo-nation swan family...just like yours!!

Today I took some photos in daylight with a little shuffling around of my swan shelf - I am trying to have the black one visible without having to resort to using the staircase.
Here are the results...

might have to resort to the stairs...

Today my latest addition to the Swan Family arrived. It is a lustre glaze medium swan and is very special....

At lunch last Sunday our friend who paints showed us this:


It's copied from another painting.

I spotted this one on the front porch of a nearby house. It's about a metre long.

We will all have seen the coloured swans Nik has up on trademe at the moment. Just reading his comments on the bottom...would love you to take up the subject here Nik...I am confused - not just by the different shape but also by the colours...which I have not seen on other crown lynn pieces. Could these again be the 'blanks' talked about by Salome and decorated by individuals outside Crown Lynn?

If they are the supposed 'blanks' -
the potter jolly well knew what they were doing when it came to glazing them....
they are gorgeous!