What’s in a name?

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Not everyone seeks it, but as we all know, fame and fortune doesn’t always come to those who might deserve it most. Arguably, talent alone is not always the most important asset to possess. Recognition and success in ceramics is often a painstaking, hard-won struggle, especially for the younger generation, when making ends meet is difficult enough.

Unless, that is, you already have celebrity status as an actor or singer (in great need of some time out and overdue me time); or you have a disproportionate flair for marketing and the freedom to translate privilege into articulating your self-absorbed sensibilities (here I am looking shy and bashful in my Sunday best); or perhaps you are the next real-deal, must-see, up-and-coming, big-name discovery to explode on the scene (pop art will always be a hit). Or because you are royalty, of course.

Recently, this little trinket – a decorated ceramic goat with a broken leg (poor little chap) – made by the future King Charles during his time at Cambridge University made headline news when it sold at auction for the “princely” sum of £11,407! That said, childhood drawings by Charles of his mother and father actually sold at the same auction house last year for almost £60,000.

Even ceramics, it would appear, has its limits.

[Photo: Hansons Auctioneers]

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