page_title: Porches Pottery (Olaria Algarve)
hierarchical_section_title: Porches Pottery (Olaria Algarve)
caption_attribution_description: Porches Pottery, Bowl, Signed
context_page_description: Porches Pottery is a producer of hand-painted pottery in the town of Porches, in the Algarve region of Portugal. The pottery was founded in 1968 by artists Patrick Swift and Lima de Freitas, in order to revive a traditional Algarve pottery industry that was rapidly dying out in favour of more modern techniques. Swift and de Freitas chose Porches for its history as a pottery centre, dating back for many centuries, and for its clay pits.
context_section_description: Porches Pottery is a producer of hand-painted pottery in the town of Porches, in the Algarve region of Portugal. The pottery was founded in 1968 by artists Patrick Swift and Lima de Freitas, in order to revive a traditional Algarve pottery industry that was rapidly dying out in favour of more modern techniques. Swift and de Freitas chose Porches for its history as a pottery centre, dating back for many centuries, and for its clay pits.
caption: Porches Pottery Mark: Pieces are signed (initials) & dated by the decorator, normally with 'Porches'. A recent addition is the Porches Pottery symbol:'O' with an 'A' in its centre, for Olaria Algarve
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