Sione Tavo Manukia
Sione Tavo Manukia was an influential figure amongst the Tongan community in New Lynn. He moved to Aotearoa in 1970, working for a couple…
Ringi Ngakuru
Ringi Ngakuru worked at Crown Lynn Potteries for over thirty years. She oversaw the fettling (removal of marks) and handle departments, and was one…
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…
Shape Catalogues
This Crown Lynn shape catalogue, titled ‘Mould Museum Illustrations’ was donated to the museum by Bruce Yallop.
Reitu Robson
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
Karen Karaka was the first Māori woman accepted into the Ceramco management cadetship scheme in 1977.
Briar Gardner
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…
Scrabbling In the Dirt
Richard Quinn was more than a Crown Lynn enthusiast, he was passionate about saving an important part of our modern history.
Saved from the kiln
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…
RO Clark
Rice Owen Clark came to Wellington aged 24 in 1841 and had moved to Auckland by 1854.
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.
Slip Casting
This is a fragment of a large swan slip-casting mould, made sometime between 1950 and 1975.
Studio Ceramics
In the 1980s Christine Harris and Malcolm Johnstone set up a new ceramics business in Ward St, New Lynn.
Tom Clarke and Sailing
Discover Stories Tom Clark and Sailing Sir Tom Clark is a name undoubtedly recognized by many a Crown Lynn collector, however Crown Lynn was…
Mirek Smíšek
Although only working at Crown Lynn for 18 months the Bohemia Ware vases produced by Mirek Smíšek were of strong Modernist design and are…
Ernest Shufflebotham
Ernest Shufflebotham was an Englishman who had been trained by New Zealand-born Keith Murray at Wedgwood in Stoke-on-Trent.
Dorothy Thorpe
On Friday night, the 24th of September 1965, a crowd of 400 people gathered for a cocktail party in the function rooms at 246…
Juliet Hawkins
Juliet joined Crown Lynn Potteries as an Assistant Designer after graduating from a Graphic Design Diploma at Auckland Technical Institute in 1979.
