Wade Pegasus

Pegasus, the winged horse of Greek Mythology who spent his days on Mount Olympus carrying lightning bolts  from Zeus, has been designed and modelled for C&S by Ken Holmes. Certainly one of Ken's best workes, this beautiful Wade Pegasus produced in a limited edition of only 250 will be highly sought after by Wade collectors throughout the world.

The Wade and
Hagen-Renaker Connection
By David Chown

FantasyLand Mermaid (sold out)

Here we present our first fantasy figure in our new
FantasyLand series, the Mermaid inspired by the great
works of Hagen-Renaker, this beautiful figure is now available to order. To be followed by Pegasus, a pixie and then to complete the set, a Wizard in limited editions of only 250.

Since the end of the Second World War there has been a close relationship, both personal and working, between the Wade group of potteries of Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, UK and the Hagen-Renaker Pottery of Los Angeles, California in the USA.
For many years Iris Carryer, Sir George Wade's eldest daughter, was great friends with Maxine Renaker, wife of the founder of the company Jim Renaker, indeed after her retirement from Wade Ireland in 1963, Iris and her husband, Strayker Carryer actually worked for a number of years for Hagen-Renaker as their Southern California representitives.
It was also Maxine Renaker and Iris Carryer, whilst the later was still at Wade Ireland who, a few years earlier had hatched the plan to produce Arizona and a number of other splendid wall plaques at the Wade Ireland factory in Portadown which had previously been developed and produced by H-R. more ..