Wemyss Pottery - a brief history

Wemyss Ware 'Black Leghorn Cockerel' Bon Jour Milk Jug c1900

Wemyss Ware was first produced by the Fife Pottery of Kirkcaldy in the 1880s. Pieces were mainly decorated with flowers, fruit, insects, birds and animals, and under chief decorator Karel Nekola, the distinctive Wemyss style developed. After the death of Karel Nekola in 1915, Edwin Sandland was appointed chief decorator and when he died in 1928, Karel's son Joseph Nekola was appointed. The pottery closed in 1930 and Joseph moved to the Bovey Pottery Company of Bovey Tracey in Devon who had bought the Wemyss Ware rights and moulds. For a selection of Wemyss visit Premier Antiques

Wemyss Ware Jazzy 'Cabbage Roses' Jug c1925