Leach Pottery Dolomite Stoneware Pourer, 100ml

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Description

The Leach Pottery Dolomite Stoneware Pourer is a 100ml hand-thrown jug made at Leach Pottery in St Ives, Cornwall. The Dolomite glaze gives it a smooth, cool white finish with a subtle blue cast.

  • Hand-thrown in St Ives, Cornwall
  • Made from St Agnes stoneware clay
  • Cool white Dolomite glazed finish
  • Holds around 100ml of milk
  • Finished with Leach Pottery mark
  • Use it for milk with coffee, cream for berries, or a small pour of custard beside a slice of tart. It is microwave safe and oven safe, with hand washing recommended.

    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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