White Horse Pottery PJG is Patrick Gaze from Nelson

I have looked in the NZ potters book, but can't find this mark. Can anyone help please?

I found a bowl with this mark on today and it is made from earthenware clay.
The distinctive delightful decoration looks familiar and should help with id.
The lovely Sallies lady suggested that it was made in Spain with it having a bull on it   
Haven't got time for pics as I have an end of year pottery function to attend, but will add some at a later date.

I have a couple of pieces of this pottery, which we use daily. The pattern is always the same, but it comes in several different colours, pale blues, browns or greens, but always a red clay base. I have never seen an earthenware one, good find! As I come across these pieces on a fairly regular basis, I doubt it is Spanish, but more likely from the South Island somewhere. I would really love to know the potter, it will come one day I'm sure.


The horse appears to be hand incised, and is always a little different.

Haha I know it's not Spanish. The decoration on my piece is different and distinctive and I've seen it before. Red terracotta clay is called earthenware in my lingo.

The pattern:


The Australian Potters marks site has this mystery mark too and someone said it could depict a unicorn ..... ?


I have a strong feeling that I have too many pots around me, as I put this bowl down not that long ago and now I can't find it amid a sea of cups and plates and bowls and I wanted to see if it has the PJG stamp on it blahumbug

Edits to say I found it and it does have the tiny PJG stamp. Darn bowl had the K Gold mug sitting inside it so was out of the radar ^.~

I have made a little progress with this mark. I have just been talking to a lady who used to pot here in Nelson, and was secretary of the Craft Potters, and she told me that the potter's name is Patrick something, and he called the pottery 'White Horse Pottery', somewhere in Nelson. Be careful, she said, this is earthenware, and chips easily.

The questions and answers in this auction say that the horse mark is White Horse Pottery from Nelson and possibly Patrick Gaze. I can't find any info for this name.

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=1038691436

I tried last week and couldn't either.

I will take this mark out of the Mystery Marks and add it to the main Gallery as White Horse Pottery for now.

Finally after nearly 5 years, we have a name for this mark thanks to the Ferret.
Patrick Gaze (not Gare) White Horse Pottery PJG Nelson

Whew !! Thank you Ferret, and well done for solving this mystery.

Hi ..... sorry, it's me again. Not sure if it's a typo or an error -- potter's name should be GAZE not GARE. Cheers.

Hi............ again. Have just read ALL the entries about Patrick Gaze's work and his White Horse emblem on the bottom. There was an element of presumption on my part, but I thought that the white horse had a connection to the ancient, huge white horse which is carved into an English hillside somewhere? Hundreds of years old, apparently. cheers

Thanks, I am out atm, but will look into this later.  I saw the name Gaze on Trade Me one time, but couldn't find confirmation anywhere.


Thanks again, I have corrected all of the spelling thank you so much for your input

Here is a cup with Patrick's mark:

mumof1 wrote:I have a couple of pieces of this pottery, which we use daily. The pattern is always the same, but it comes in several different colours, pale blues, browns or greens, but always a red clay base. I have never seen an earthenware one, good find! As I come across these pieces on a fairly regular basis, I doubt it is Spanish, but more likely from the South Island somewhere. I would really love to know the potter, it will come one day I'm sure.


The horse appears to be hand incised, and is always a little different.

I shared a flat in Auckland with a Patrick Gaze, about 25 years ago. He had come out from the UK as a professional potter; and so the Nelson pottery must have been his - surely there wouldn't be two Patrick Gazes potting in the South Island, would there? He retired from his (groundsman at Ellerslie racecourse) job, and went back to the South Island, somewhere in Canterbury. Then he changed his email address, and I lost contact with him. But it would explain the White Horse, wouldn't it. (Chalk white horses in Wiltshire). He may have been from Wiltshire.
I hope this is helpful to you! - Jenny Leu Williams. (goodjelly)

Are these wine sips? Don't laugh, I only know the term "wine sip" from here and I have no idea what they are supposed to look like.
They are about 8 cm high and wide and exquisite:

Hahaaa not laughing  
Yes that it what we called these in the 1970's and 1980's when we made them heheee
Oh and they usually were made with a matching bottle ~_~

Ah well, I have only been in New Zealand for a couple of years, English is my second language and I only recently got interested in pottery. I have been drinking wine for quite a few decades, but always out of glass. And did I mention English is not my first language?
Are wine sips typically from these parts?

Hahaa you are so cute Hannele
Your English is perfect as far as I can see
I have no idea how we got to call those little wine cups ... wine sips, but it is what I have always know them as

A salt pig by Patrick, great colours, wonderful decoration. The glaze is very crazed, but there are no cracks:

And a very nice (cake) plate. There is a small chip from the bottom:

I have just Googled the name of this pottery and came across this thread, which I think dates from 2011. Patrick Gaze is my cousin, and I have just visited his sister Mary, who lives in Leicester (UK). She showed me a piece, and told me that the White Horse comes from one in Wiltshire - she and Patrick grew up on a farm near Wootton Bassett, not far from Calne. I think Patrick studied at Birmingham School of Art. He emigrated to New Zealand with his family in 1969, and I have not seen him since. I think his first pottery was in Auckland, but he eventually moved to Christchurch, where he now lives, no longer potting.