Chris and Sally du Fresne - Mapua

I found this lovely platter, and it looks like maybe the same maker, mark looks like a stylised Mapua?

It doesn't look like any mark I could find in the book or in the gallery. It seems to say Mapua, with the P going down to meet between the N and the Z. A very nice plate, with a beautiful glaze:

Yes it certainly does say Mapua and I've added it to their Gallery thanks you Hannele

perhaps we need to merge this topic with the other mystery one? https://www.newzealandpottery.net/t632-do-you-know-who-this-is-made-by

Yes please as that is the same mark.
Do you agree that it says Mapua mumof1?

I think so, but who made it?

Whoever made it knew what they were doing
I made an instant connection with the few pieces of Mahana Ware that I've seen, especially regarding the clay.

Perhaps they should go into the Mystery basket until they have been confirmed one way or another.
I jumped to a conclusion, without any support or reference.
Sorry about that. ...

The marks certainly look the same, the only difference being the pentagon around the letters.

I am reasonably confident they were made by one of my grandparents - Chris and Sally du Fresne. Chris ran a pottery on Tahi St in Mapua, Sally potted sometimes too.

The mark is one I associate more with Sally, but the pieces themselves look like Chris' work. The slip cast forms are the ones he worked with before they were lost in a fire, and the designs on them look like his to my eye.

Thank you so much Anita for this information, as this work is sorted at last.
Fantastic

Much obliged, Ev

No problem, it is lovely to see some more of their work in the world

If anyone does ever stumble over some more I'd love to know!

Many thanks to Anita Easton for letting us use her photo of the mark of her Grandfather Chris de Fresne.
This mark is very similar to Ross Richards mark, but the 'legs' are splayed, not straight down.

We went through some family pottery and everything we found with the five sided stylised Mapua was made by Chris. I think he used three different marks over his career, that one, the other one I posted an example of, and some of his early work is marked with a CD.