Harry Simeon

Doultons Harry Simeon - Talented Royal Doulton artist and one of their most versatile potters.

Harry Simeon, was one of Doultons most versatile and talented artists and many collectors are impressed by the diversity of his designs.

In his youth, Harry Simeon worked with his father as a monumental mason. He studied modeling and sculpture at the Huddersfield School of Art where he won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art in London.

After his studies were complete, Harry joined Doultons Lambeth studio in 1896.

Harry Simeon's earliest work includes vases with foliate decoration in the fashionable art nouveau style. His bold, linear designs were ideally suited to the raised tube-lining and pigment brush line methods used at Doulton in the early 1900s.

By the 1920s, Simeon was decorating vases and plaques with highly stylized designs of flowers and birds in the prevailing Art Deco style

Simeon also used his sculptural skills to advantage, modeling a number of animal models and trinket trays which were slip cast in small editions in the late 1920s and 30s.

The trays, known today as bibelots, are very sought after by collectors who try to find the complete set

The stoneware toby jugs made at the Lambeth factory were also modeled by Simeon and he designed an extensive series of tobies, tobacco jars, ash pots, ink wells and candlesticks.

Keen toby jug collectors seek out all the different color and modeling variations that exist in this popular series.

A few years ago, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London were delighted to receive a collection of Harry Simeon's work from his daughters so he is well represented in this world famous museum