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Click here to subscribe‡ Bernard Leach (1887-1979) a St Ives Pottery plate, painted to the well with a simple willow tree motif, in blue and tenmoku on a celadon ground, with tenmoku rim, impressed seal mark and painted BL monogram, 27cm. diam. Provenance Contemporary Ceramics, Phillips, London 26th October 2000 lot 45.
‡ Michael Cardew (1901-1983) an earthenware vase, shouldered ovoid form with everted top rim, painted with black banded decoration on a blue ground, impressed seal mark to base, 23cm. high Provenance Contemporary Ceramics, Bonhams, London, 5th April 1995, lot 22. Exhibited British Studio Pottery The Collection of a Discerning Academic, Monnow Valley Arts, 26th September - 8th November 2009, catalogue number 15. Literature Bernard Leach, Hamada & Their Circle, from the Wingfield Digby Collection, Phaidon, page 131 catalogue no.133 for a comparable vase.
‡ Janet Leach (1918-1997) a St Ives Pottery porcelain vase, ovoid with tall neck and small looped handles, covered in a pale celadon glaze with simple tenmoku brushed motif, and tenmoku interior, impressed seal marks to base, 20cm. high Provenance Contemporary Ceramics, Bonhams, London 20th April 1994, lot 93. Exhibited British Studio Pottery The Collection of a Discerning Academic, Monnow Valley Arts, 26th September - 18th November 2009, catalogue number 36. 20th Century British Studio Pottery from the Collection of an Oxford Graduate, Ashmolean Museum 14th April-14th August 1994, catalogue number 5.
‡ John Leach (born 1939) a Muchelney Pottery wood-fired stoneware vase, dated 2004, shouldered form with collar rim, covered with a burnished finish, and another waisted cylindrical vase similar impressed seal mark, 13.5cm. high (2) Provenance Monmouth, 2006 Contemporary Ceramics, Bonhams London 21st November 1988 lot 21 (waisted vase). Exhibited 20th Century British Studio Pottery from the Collection of an Oxford Graduate, Ashmolean Museum 14th April-14th August 1994, catalogue number 12.
David Leach OBE (1911-2005) a cut-sided porcelain bowl, shouldered form, covered in a reduction fired copper red glaze, a David Leach Lowerdown Pottery stoneware box and cover, painted with iron red motif, a Colin Pearson Aylesford Pottery cut sided bowl covered with a tenmoku glaze, a Lowerdown Pottery bud vase and a Simon Leach Raku unomi, various marks, small repaired chip to Leach bowl, 15cm. diam. (6) Provenance Wellingborough School, October 1988 (Leach bowl) Contemporary Ceramics, Bonhams, London, 9th December 191, lot 35 (Leach box and cover) Contemporary Ceramics, Christie's, London, 21st November 1988 lot 141 (Pearson bowl) Exhibited 20th Century British Studio Pottery from the Collection of an Oxford Graduate, Ashmolean Museum 14th April-14th August 1994, catalogue number 11 (bowl).
‡ David Leach OBE (1911-2005) a Lowerdown Pottery porcelain bottle vase, shouldered form, covered with a rich tenmoku glaze with brushed zig-zag grass motif to both sides, impressed seal mark, 33cm. high Provenance Contemporary Ceramics, Christie's London 20th June 1988 lot 3. Literature Emmanuel Cooper and Kathy Niblett David Leach, Richard Dennis Publications, page 107 catalogue number 106 for a comparable design on a taller stoneware vase. Exhibited 20th Century British Studio Pottery from the Collection of an Oxford Graduate, Ashmolean Museum 14th April-14th August 1994, catalogue number 4
‡ David Leach OBE (1911-2005) a Lowerdown Pottery stoneware Willow vase, cylindrical form, wax-resist decorated with a willow tree motif with dolomite glaze over tenmoku, impressed seal marks 19cm. high Provenance Galerie Besson, London 18th September 1997. Exhibited David and Jessamine Kendall Pots and Jewels by brother and sister, Galerie Besson September-October 1997, no.23. Literature Emmanuel Cooper and Kathy Niblett David Leach, Richard Dennis Publications, page 100 catalogue number 92 for a bottle vase decorated with the same design and glazes.
‡ David Leach OBE (1911-2005) a Lowerdown Pottery Willow vase, stoneware, ovoid form with collar rim, decorated in resist with a tenmoku willow tree, under thick and running Dolomite glaze, impressed seal mark to base, 28cm. high Provenance Contemporary Ceramics, Bonhams, London 21st March 1991, lot 25. Exhibited 20th Century British Studio Pottery from the Collection of an Oxford Graduate, Ashmolean Museum 14th April-14th August 1994, catalogue number 9. Literature Emmanuel Cooper and Kathy Niblett David Leach, Richard Dennis Publications, page 92 for a bottle vase similar.
‡ David Leach OBE (1911-2005) a large and impressive Lowerdown Pottery Willow, vase, stoneware, ovoid form with collar rim, resist decorated in tenmoku, under a grey glaze, impressed seal mark, 48cm. high Provenance Lowerdown Pottery, purchased directly from David Leach's studio, 23rd August 1989. Exhibited British Studio Pottery The Collection of a Discerning Academic, Monnow Valley Arts, 26th September - 8th November 2009, catalogue number 31.
‡ Bernard Leach (1887-1979) a St Ives Pottery stoneware Leaping Salmon vase, shouldered form, painted with two bands of fish in tenmoku on a grey glaze, impressed seal marks, 29.5cm. high Provenance Contemporary Ceramics, Christie's London, 20th June 1988 lot 23. Literature 20th Century British Studio Pottery from the Collection of an Oxford Graduate, Ashmolean Museum 14th April-14th August 1994, catalogue number 1.
‡ Mike Dodd (born 1943) a stoneware cut-sided vase, with knopped collar neck, covered to the foot in a blue and white hawthorn ash glaze and a Muchelney Pottery stoneware vase by Nick Rees, impressed seal mark to foot rim, 18cm. high, (2) Provenance European Ceramics, Knaresborough Gallery, 23rd September 1992, catalogue number 176, (MIke Dodd). Muchelney Pottery, (Nick Rees) Exhibited John Leach and Nick Rees, The Potters of Muchelney, Glastonbury Rural Life Museum, cat. no.15 (Nick Rees vase).
Ray Finch (born 1914) a stoneware jug, ovoid form with waisted cylindrical neck, covered to the foot with a tenmoku glaze, with brushed iron red scrolling band, a Trevor Corser stoneware vase covered in a tenmoku glaze, a Leach Pottery jug covered in a green glaze and a collection of thirty pots by various artists including Marianne de Trey, Emily Myers, Philip Wadsworth and Derek Clarkson, unsigned, 26cm. high (33) Provenance St Ives Pottery, Cornwall, 11th June 1994 (Ray Finch jug) Exhibited British Studio Pottery The Collection of a Discerning Academic, Monnow Valley Arts, 26th September - 8th November 2009, catalogue number 33 (Ray Finch).
1 x 7 inch reel of boxed audio tape, annotated: "International Conference Dentinton (sic) 1952 Potters & Weavers" Bernard Leach, John Bowers (Unesco), Dr Yanagi, Wildenham (sic, Wildenhain).Note: this spool contains 3 hours of recordings which we have had transposed into digital files.Although the International Potters and Weavers Convention at Dartington in 1952 is a well known event, we believe Leach's address to the convention is unknown to the pottery world. As such, this recording is of significant historical interest from both the content and Leach's delivery. The recording offers us a fascinating glimpse into the 'days of yore' when the Leach School advocated one way for studio pottery. The fact that you can hear the voices of Leach and Yanagi makes the content much more real than reading from the printed page. Leach and Yanagi come over as dictatorial, and particularly from the viewpoint of today, the arguments appear illogical and difficult to sustain. However, there are voices from the audience that disagree with them and in fact point toward the future that is studio ceramics today. Some people who speak are identified such as Heber Mathews, a long time opponent of Leach, others could probably be ascertained from the conference list.The recording is of real research interest and it is fascinating to hear the voices of these celebrated ceramicists brought to life. The talk by the UNESCO representative John Bowers is also interesting, relevant now and cuts into the Leach/Yanagi philosophic axis. We are indebted to the potter and writer Peter Smith for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.
Three items of exquisite, hand-thrown, porcelain, studio pottery by potter Mary Rich (contemporary of David Leach), circa 1985, to include a small porcelain vase with a flared, flattened rim, featuring an overall decoration of pink/purple banding with hand-painted gilded detailing in the form of circles and chevrons, (Height: 9.5 cm), a larger tapering, cylindrical vase with a flared, flattened rim, featuring an overall decoration of blue/purple banding with hand-painted gilded detailing in the form of circles, solid bands and chevrons, (Height: 18.5 cm) and a footed, porcelain, circular, bowl featuring an overall decoration of purple banding with hand-painted gilded detailing in the form of circles, cross-hatching and lozenges, (Dia: 10.5 cm, Height: 6 cm). All pieces stamped with the artists 'M' mark in a rectangle. (3)
David Leach (1911 - 2005), Lowerdown Pottery, a spill vase square section, painted foxglove in tenmoku, blue and orange glaze, two impressed seal marks, 14.5cm high, together with a Leach Pottery miniature stoneware vase, in tenmoku, scratched through, impressed seal mark, 6cm (2).Illustrated.
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