Leach Pottery
The Leach Pottery was founded in St. Ives, Cornwall in 1920 by Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada. Their functional, everyday tableware for the home is thrown by hand and fired on the very same original site by a team of highly skilled potters.
Stoneware with a dolomite glaze. Hand thrown in Cornwall at the Leach studio. Reduction fired. Bowls stack neatly inside one another. Each set comes with a voucher for entry into the Leach Museum in St Ives, Cornwall. Each bowl has colour variation in the glaze that occurs naturally, depending on where it is placed in the kiln.
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Hand wash. Stoneware.
Made in the UK.
Small 5.5 x 12.5cm, medium 7 x 17cm, large 9.5 x 22.5cm.
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Celebrating Inspiration and Exchange at The Leach Pottery
Over the last few hundred years, there are few potteries that have been quite as influential as The Leach Pottery. Widely regarded as the birthplace of British studio pottery, its founder Bernard Leach represented a new breed of artist-potter in the twentieth century, establishing an aesthetic tradition characterised by hand-thrown, functional pots, glazed in quiet earthy colours.
South-African-born ceramicist Roelof Ulys joined the pottery in 2013, today heading up a studio of six potters, as well as an apprentice and a merry band of volunteers. “The Leach Pottery doesn't belong to us,” he says. “It belongs to the generations of potters who have come through here before us and been taught by Bernard Leach and his apprentices.”