Adam Partridge Auctioneers’ summer auction of 2022 is devoted to the collection of the late Jack Blackburn. Jack had a passion for British and French studio ceramics and was well known as the founder of ‘Pots from France’.
For more than twenty-five years Jack, with his partner Margot Bartlett, curated biannual selling exhibitions of pots made by many of the leading French ceramists. The work was varied, with an emphasis on functional ware balanced by a choice of fine individual pieces, and displayed in the informal and unconventional setting of Jack’s house and garden. Jack lived at Bankside Cottage in Youlgreave, Derbyshire, which one newspaper critic dubbed ‘The English home of French pottery’.
