Arthur Holland ceramics go under hammer

Arthur Holland ceramics go under hammer

Ceramics by Hanley-born Arthur Holland — who painted Queen Elizabeth II’s Coronation Vase in 1953 — are being auctioned by his grandchildren on 12th July at Potteries Auctions, Newcastle-under-Lyme. Born in 1896 in Hanley, to Mary Holland and pottery polisher Arthur Thompson Holland, Arthur was a talented child who left school at 13 and was taken under the wing of Josiah Wedgwood as an apprentice at his Etruria factory. At the same time, he unde…