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Pacific Design at Crown Lynn

A fantastic way to see the influence of Pacific and Māori communities on Crown Lynn is through the objects produced in the factory.

Crown Lynn’s history is populated by hugely talented people, one of whom was Reitu Robson (nee Cassidy) – a decorator for Crown Lynn Potteries.

Karen Karaka was the first Māori woman accepted into the Ceramco management cadetship scheme in 1977.

Briar Gardner was one of New Zealand’s first studio potters. She was Sir Tom Clark’s aunt, and both lived and worked at the Gardner…

Richard Quinn was more than a Crown Lynn enthusiast, he was passionate about saving an important part of our modern history.

During the final stages of Cown Lynn’s closure in 1989 many documents and materials from factory cupboards and drawers were incinerated in the kilns…

Rice Owen Clark came to Wellington aged 24 in 1841 and had moved to Auckland by 1854.

Designed by Dave Jenkin, and modelled by Tam Mitchell, the ‘Three Faces of Eve’ lamp base is a particularly beautiful part of our collection.

This is a fragment of a large swan slip-casting mould, made sometime between 1950 and 1975.

In the 1980s Christine Harris and Malcolm Johnstone set up a new ceramics business in Ward St, New Lynn.