Bakewell Brothers

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Like most late nineteenth-century Australian potteries, the Sydney firm Bakewell Brothers (founded 1884) started out  making bricks and pipes as well as domestic wares for the kitchen and pantry. Around the turn of century, Bakewell was making a popular line of cream-coloured tableware imprinted with floral patterns in green and sepia,  to compete with imported Doulton ware of similar design.
    In the 1930s Bakewell introduced the ‘Newtone’ line of art ware. At the same time, Bakewell  manufactured household crockery under the ‘Beulah Ware’ name. In the 1950s, Bakewell introduced the ‘Trent’ line of vases.
   Some 1930s Newtone pieces were fancily handpainted with Australian bush scenes, flora or fauna, but more commonly they were unpretentious ‘modern’ pieces like these, which are similar in glaze and form to those illustrated in a 1937 journal advertisement reproduced in Geoff Ford’s Australian Pottery: The First 100 Years.  Bakewell closed in 1955.

Below, ink-stamped pottery mark,  Newtone Pottery, Sydney