Bidspirit auction | STUDIO POTTER REG JOHNSON 16cm

STUDIO POTTER REG JOHNSON 16cm x 18cm CHARACTER FIGURINE ” THE MERCHANT” (Reginald Johnson was born in October 1909. He attended Middleport Elementary School.Reginald became a student at Burslem College of Art at the age of 12, where he studied under Gordon Forsythe and Harry Tittensor. In 1923, at the age of 14, Reg Johnson joined Royal Doulton as an apprentice artist. He was the only student to receive direct tuition from the renowned art director at the time, Charles Noke. One of his first recorded pieces was an imposing Cathedral vase which was modelled by Charles Noke and painted by Reg.)