b'59A Herald newspaper reviewer described her in 1935 as unique among Victorian pottery workers in her colour range . a mistress of the dark rites of firing and glazing. Meticulously numbered and often bearing her distinctive monogram, her work is easily identifiable. Detailed kiln books ensured she avoided repeating mistakes and was able to continually refine her technique. In January 1935 she wrote:An imagination that can play and dream is not the only qualification for a craftsman. There is work, toohard, solid, prosaic work It means compounding glazes and preparing clay, and bearing with a stoic heart the disappointments that laborious, but unsuccessful, experiment brings - but finally it means the triumph of holding the work at last between the two hands that brought it forth from the formless earth.The Morgan collection is rich in Mahoods wonderful work.$15,00020,00059'