Leach Pottery Tenmoku Black Stoneware Small Mug, 200ml

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Description

The Leach Pottery Tenmoku Black Stoneware Small Mug is a 200ml handmade mug from Leach Pottery in St Ives. Its iron-rich Tenmoku glaze is predominantly black and can break to rusty red-brown around the rim, handle and thinner edges.

  • Made at Leach Pottery, St Ives
  • Deep black Tenmoku iron-rich glaze
  • 200ml size for espresso or small coffee
  • Microwave and oven safe stoneware
  • Hand washing helps protect the glaze
  • 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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