	Alan CAIGER SMITH Dates: b 1930 After he became interested in ceramics whilst studying at Cambridge University he trained at the Central School of Arts under Dora Billington and Kenneth Clark. In 1955 he set up his own pottery at Aldermaston, Hampshire. Initially he worked on his own, but was later joined by Geoffrey Eastop and they worked together until 1962. The pottery became a working pottery with eight or more assistants making a range of thrown or press-moulded domestic pottery, tiles and commissioned pieces in tin-glazed red earthenware with in-glaze and lustre brushwork decoration. The pottery closed in 1993. Alan Caiger-Smith is the author of a number of important and scholarly texts on the history of ceramics including: Tin-Glaze Pottery in Europe and the Islamic World: The Tradition of 1000 Years in Maiolica, Faience and Delftware (Faber and Faber, 1973) Lustre Pottery: Technique, Tradition and Innovation in Islam and the Western World (Faber and Faber, 1973) Piccolpasso, Cipriano, The Three Books of the Potter's Art (I Tre Libri del Arte Vasaiao) (trans. A.Caiger Smith and R.Lightbown) (Scolar Press, 1980)Pottery, People and Time: A Workshop in Action (Shepton Beauchamp : Richard Dennis, 1995)

Alan CAIGER SMITH

Dates: b 1930

After he became interested in ceramics whilst studying at Cambridge University he trained at the Central School of Arts under Dora Billington and Kenneth Clark. In 1955 he set up his own pottery at Aldermaston, Hampshire. Initially he worked on his own, but was later joined by Geoffrey Eastop and they worked together until 1962. The pottery became a working pottery with eight or more assistants making a range of thrown or press-moulded domestic pottery, tiles and commissioned pieces in tin-glazed red earthenware with in-glaze and lustre brushwork decoration. The pottery closed in 1993. Alan Caiger-Smith is the author of a number of important and scholarly texts on the history of ceramics including:
Tin-Glaze Pottery in Europe and the Islamic World: The Tradition of 1000 Years in Maiolica, Faience and Delftware (Faber and Faber, 1973)
Lustre Pottery: Technique, Tradition and Innovation in Islam and the Western World (Faber and Faber, 1973)
Piccolpasso, Cipriano, The Three Books of the Potter's Art (I Tre Libri del Arte Vasaiao) (trans. A.Caiger Smith and R.Lightbown) (Scolar Press, 1980)Pottery, People and Time: A Workshop in Action (Shepton Beauchamp : Richard Dennis, 1995)