Daisy Makeig-Jones

Susannah Margaretta "Daisy" Makeig-Jones (1881–1945) was a pottery designer for Wedgwood. She is best known for her Fairyland Lustre series.

Makeig-Jones was born in Wath-upon-Dearne near Rotherham, Yorkshire, the eldest of seven children. Her father, K. Geoffrey Makeig-Jones, was of Welsh descent and was a medical doctor, and her mother was the daughter of Thomas Reeder, a solicitor. Makeig-Jones was taught by a governess at home, then attended a boarding school near Rugby. After her family moved to Torquay, she entered the Torquay School of Art.

After two years at Wedgwood, Makeig-Jones, clearly talented, started to design tableware in 1911. Attracted to the fanciful, she began to design Oriental dragon patterns in 1913. She moved on to her signature Fairyland Lustre design in 1915, a year after the war in Europe started.

These lines were just what were needed at Wedgwood, which was in a slack period when the Fairyland Lustre series was released, according to Nicholas Dawes, an independent New York antiques dealer. "Many Europeans were looking for something to escape from the horrors of war,"

Patterns

Chinoiserie Range: Daventry Coq du bois (1923) Fairyland Black Fairyland Candlemas Fairyland Lustre (1915) Fairyland Sunset Indian Range: Lahore Lustre Range: Fruit Moa (1923) Noah's Ark Persian poems: Argus Pheasant Persian poems: Nizami Yellowstone Zoo (1923) Zoo and Cobble Bead (1916)

Notable collections

Plate Showing Imps on a Bridge and Tree House, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore Plate Showing Bubbles and Imps, Wiener Museum of Decorative Arts, Dania Beach, Florida