Australian potters' marks
Marks in this list are qualified by source using the codes in the table below. When no source is indicated, the mark has been taken from a known work. Names may link through to images and further information on Identifying Australian Pottery.
| 1973 | A Directory of potters / Potters’ Society of Australia. Woolloomooloo, N.S.W. : The Society, 1973 (published to coincide with the members’ 7th Biennial Exhibition). |
| 1977 | Potters in Australia : a directory of potters in Australia, their biographies, signatures or marks and photographs of recent work / editor: Janet Mansfield. [Adelaide] : Potters’ Society of Australia, 1977. |
| 1981 | Potters’ directory & information book / editor Janet Mansfield. Darlinghurst, N.S.W. : Potters’ Society of Australia, [1981] (looseleaf). |
| 1982 | Potters’ directory & information book / editor Janet Mansfield. Darlinghurst, N.S.W. : Potters’ Society of Australia, [1982] (a looseleaf addition to the 1981 directory). |
| 1985 | Potters 1985. Darlinghurst, N.S.W. : The Potters’ Society of Australia, 1985. |
| 1986 | Potters 1986-7. Darlinghurst, N.S.W. : The Potters’ Society of Australia, 1987. |
| 1990 | Ceramics : artists, galleries / editor Janet Mansfield. Sydney : The Potters’ Society of Australia, 1990. |
| 1996 | The Australian potters’ directory / edited by Sue Buckle. [Crows Nest, N.S.W.] : The Potters’ Society of Australia, 1996. |
| Ford | Encyclopedia of Australian Potter’s Marks / Geoff Ford. 2nd ed. Wodonga, Vic. : Salt Glaze Press, c2002. |
| JAC | Journal of Australian Ceramics (images of marks are included in each issue from 49/1, April 2010) |
| Skepsi | Celebrating the Master. Melbourne : Skepsi on Swanston Gallery, 2004. |
For a history of the directories published by the Potters’ Society of Australia see:
Judith Pearce, Are you in 2011? A brief history of the Australian Ceramics Directory and its precursors, Journal of Australian Ceramics, 50/2, July 2011, pp. 92-95 (Copy here)
Note that the 1964, 1973 and 1988 directories do not include marks and not all entries in the other directories do either. Potters included in this list may have entries in other directories without a recorded mark, and potters with entries without a recorded mark in any of the directories may not yet appear in this list.
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