Production
The Handle Room
Crown Lynn’s handle room was a hive of activity. During the 1960s, teacups were one of Crown Lynn’s best-selling items – with 14,000 produced…
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Shape Catalogues
This Crown Lynn shape catalogue, titled ‘Mould Museum Illustrations’ was donated to the museum by Bruce Yallop.
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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.
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Three Faces of Eve
Designed by Dave Jenkin, and modelled by Tam Mitchell, the ‘Three Faces of Eve’ lamp base is a particularly beautiful part of our collection.
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Slip Casting
This is a fragment of a large swan slip-casting mould, made sometime between 1950 and 1975.
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Our collection contains a large number of moulds. These were either in the Crown Lynn factory when it closed, or else dug out of…
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Production line decoration
Although Crown Lynn production was highly mechanised, especially after the 60s, but it was also highly labour intensive.
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Production
The collection includes a variety of items used in the manufacture of Crown Lynn ceramics including ram press cases, metal engraving plates, backstamps, moulds…
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Trials
Trials were made to test out new shapes or glazes to see if they could be put into production. Many of these items have…
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The Colour of Clay
The first items AMBRICO (Crown Lynn) made were a creamy yellow colour because of the local New Lynn clay they were using. Crown Lynn…
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