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Small Earthenware Cup by Geoffrey Whiting.

Geoffrey Whiting was born in Stocksfield, Northumberland. He trained to be an architect, but during a visit to India he settled in a village and worked with a family of local potters. Altogether he spent some six and half years in India assimilating the atmosphere and studying this craft. Whiting never received any professional training in the potters’ craft and since his initiation into the making of simple unglazed earthenware in that Indian village he returned to England and set up his own pottery – the Avoncraft Pottery– in Worcestershire. Here he produced pots in quantity for the domestic market, as well as single items for the collector, specialising in high temperature stoneware and porcelain. In 1972 he established a studio in Canterbury, where he also taught.