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| Collection | Crafts Study Centre | |
| Potter | Bernard Leach | |
| Description | Sketch of a pot, with notes on the type of glazes to be used, and the note: "This is too narrow", pencil on paper. | |
| Id Number Current Accession | LA.1234 | |
| Subject | Leach Archive, sketch | |
| Material | pencil on paper | |
| History | Alyn Giles Jones, catalogued drawings numbering 1024 throught to 1357 together. These 334 items are described as follows: The drawings of Leach: shapes; flowers and plants; perspective sketches; copies of museum, etc. pieces; buildings; animals; etc.; ranges of useful wares, sized and priced; one or two furniture designs. The pots drawn include vases, teapots, tableware, utensils, etc. Many are initialled by Bernard Leach. Some are merely jottings; some are elaborately drawn and shaded; there are two copies of Cardew pieces and one of Hamada. An important group is that depicting standard ware in the early 1930's; of these some are by Bernard Leach, and the rest by David Leach and others (unsigned and unattributed). Another group is of photocopies of Bernard Leach drawings, etc. Dates visible are: 1912, 1929, 1930, 1939, 1969, and, from the quality of Bernard Leach's later script, about 1974-75. |
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| Literary Source | Catalogue of the Papers and Books of Bernard Leach, Volume II by Alyn Giles Jones, Crafts Study Centre, 1984-85 | |
| Rights Owner | David Leach/Crafts Study Centre 2004 | |
| Style Period Period | 1910s | |
| Technique | sketching | |
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