An Antiques Roadshow guest was left gobsmacked at the real worth of a "wedding present" he had purchased for himself years ago. The BBC daytime show journeyed to The Scottish National Gallery Of Modern Art for filming, where expert Will Farmer encountered a piece of artwork crafted by Tony Morris. He started off by saying: "Well when you think of ceramic tiles, you automatically think of the kitchen or the bathroom but here in front of us, we see them elevated into an art form.
So where did this come from?". The guest responded: "Well I was born in Southampton and I was actually evacuated to Bournemouth during the war and my two aunts down there had a lot of cool ceramic pottery around their houses." "I was getting married in 1964 and decided to have a small set of Poole bloom moon crockery.
" "When I went to pick up the crockery set, this was on the wall." "I just fell in love with it and that's about it and I tried to do some research on it and found that Tony Morris was a young artist, fairly soon I believe out of art school in Wales somewhere and he was taken on as a deputy head ceramic artist." "And as I say, I absolutely fell in love with it and said 'OK, I must have that as my own wedding present as well.
" Farmer expanded: "Well you're absolutely right. Tony came into the Poole works, literally a year before you were there." "The advert for the position actually went out in 1962, it was put in the press by Robert Jefferson who then was the senior director of all the art.