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A beautifully humble straight-sided bowl made at the Leach Pottery, England, circa 1955.
A mid-century art pottery bowl hand thrown on a potter’s wheel using a peach-coloured clay local to the Leach Pottery of Bernard Leach in St Ives, Cornwall.
Close up showing a poetic iron oxide spot on the side of a Bernard Leach pottery bowl made around 1955 in St Ives, Cornwall.
Mood image showing a Leach Pottery bowl, to the interior of the bowl is a translucent sage-green coloured wood ash glaze.
Close up showing the inner rim and lip of a Bernard Leach Pottery bowl. The straight sided vessel has been hand painted with an iron oxide glaze which has produced a beautiful iridescent metallic effect.
Top down shot looking into the bowl of a Bernard Leach vessel. The speckled spinach jade colour to the interior has been created using a wood ash glaze.
Detail showing a band of iridescent iron oxide hand-brushed around the rim of a Bernard Leach Pottery Bowl from the early- to mid-twentieth century.
Head on shot looking into the bowl of a wood ash glazed reduction fired bowl from the Bernard Leach Pottery in St Ives, Cornwall. This collectable mid-century design and many others for sale from Art & Utility, London.
A handmade wheel thrown Leach pottery bowl from the 1950s with straight sides and a dark green brown wood ash glaze.
Image showing the underside of the base of a Leach Pottery bowl hand thrown in Bernard Leach's Pottery in St Ives Cornwall in the 1950s.
Angle shot showing the heal and foot of a hand-thrown Leach Pottery Bowl that was fired in a wood furled kiln with a wood ash glaze.
Photo showing how the wood ash and iron oxide glaze on this Bernard Leach Pottery bowl are similar to ancient East Asian chawans with hare's fur glaze.
Faraway show showing an upturned straight sided hand thrown bowl produced at Bernard Leach's workshop in the nineteen-fifties. The England stamp is clear.
Close up showing the Leach Pottery stamp sat beneath the wood ash glaze of a wood fired pot.
Detail showing the famous Leach Pottery makes stamp mark and the 'England' stamp. This wood ash glazed bowl was made in circa 1955.
Art shot of a rustic hand thrown bowl with straight sides. The thick treacle glaze featuring colours such as brown, green and red is typical of the Leach Potteries work in the 1950s.
Detail of the edge of a Bernard Leach Pottery bowl with a thick treacle like wood ash glaze. Due to age the glaze now displays a beautiful craquelure.
Still life mood image showing a beautifully humble Bernard Leach Pottery bowl stood on a turned wood base. This pairing has been made in acknowledgement of Leach's love for East Asian art and design. Worldwide shipping available from Art & Utility, London.
Leach Pottery

Leach Pottery Wood Ash & Iron Glaze Bowl

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A beautifully humble straight-sided bowl made at the Leach Pottery, England, circa 1955.

The vessel has been hand thrown on a potter’s wheel using a peach-coloured clay local to St Ives. To the interior of the bowl is a translucent sage-green coloured wood ash glaze.
A glaze containing wood ash has also been thickly applied to the exterior. However, this has then been lightly over brushed or sprayed with an iron-bearing glaze. Resultantly, intricate streaks and speckles have been created, which are reminiscent of the "hare's fur" glazes on ancient tenmoku tea bowls.
The transition from the soft spinach-jade appearance of the interior to the heavier more dynamic dark-green-brown of the exterior has been artfully dramatised by a band of iridescent iron oxide hand-brushed around the rim.

Although this item does not carry Bernard Leach's makers mark, it was certainly made following his ideology that "simplicity reveals, ornateness conceals".

Manufacturer: Leach Pottery

Year of Design: C. 1950

Date Produced: C. 1950

Colour: Green, brown, orange, black

Height: 5.5 cm, Diameter: 10.5 cm

Condition: Perfect

Branding: Impressed with the Leach Pottery seal and ‘England’.