Leach Pottery Dolomite Stoneware Egg Cup, 4.5cm

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Description

The Leach Pottery Dolomite Stoneware Egg Cup is a hand-thrown stoneware egg cup made at Leach Pottery in St Ives, Cornwall. Its Dolomite glaze has a creamy white finish that can show a faint blue cast, with natural variation from piece to piece.

  • Made at The Leach Pottery, St Ives
  • Creamy dolomite glaze with natural variation
  • Stoneware clay, dense and durable
  • Microwave and oven safe tableware
  • Hand washing recommended for long-term care
  • Meet the maker: Leach Pottery

    In 1920, a British and a Japanese potter stood on a hill above St Ives and decided to build a kiln. Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada had just sailed from Japan, carrying ideas from Japanese, Chinese, Korean and English traditions with them. They called it an East/West exchange. They sourced clay from nearby: earthenware from St Erth, stoneware from Dorset, ball clay from Devon. They burned bracken to make wood-ash glazes.

    By the late 1930s, Bernard's son David joined the business and in 1946 the first Standard Ware catalogue appeared. It soon became an iconic collection pottery. Soon, artists travelled from across the world to train at St Ives, among them Michael Cardew, Norah Braden, Katharine Pleydell-Bouverie, and William "Bill" Marshall. Walk into Leach Pottery Studios today and you'll find potters at the wheel, training the next generation...

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