Kevin Francis Face Pots

The latest range from Kevin Francis are Face Pots. The launch of Face Pots towards the end of 2000 has been the companies most sucessful ever.

Taking their inspiration from a traditional Japanese Netsuke design, and blending that with traditional English ceramic portraiture, the company has developed these two piece ceramic pots, 2 1/2" in diameter, and featuring the upturned face of a famous personality on the lid, and an inscription, whilst the backstamp will include the year of manufacture.

Every Face Pot is hand made and hand painted at the Peggy Davies Studio in Stoke on Trent, England, and made to the same high standard as traditional Kevin Francis releases. At present all Face Pots are modelled by either Andy Moss or Ray Noble.

The Face Pots are being produced in an open edition. To add additional spice to collecting Kevin Francis Face Pots, 100 of each Face Pot will have a special real gold backstanp, together with a slight colour variation. These are being distributed randomly - 50 for the UK and 50 for the US.

Apart from seasonal pots which will be retired on 31st December each year, all other Face Pots will be retired from time, without warning. The first of these retirements was the white 'Bertie Bulldog' on December 23rd, with the final number of orders taken being 248. The first Christmas Pot, Santa was produced in an edition of 496, and among these, 18 special blue colourways were distributed.