Leach Pottery Tonmoku Black Stoneware Side Plate, 21cm

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Description

The Leach Pottery Side Plate in Tenmoku Black Stoneware is a 21cm stoneware plate made at Leach Pottery in St Ives, Cornwall. The iron-rich Tenmoku glaze is deep black and often breaks to rusty red-brown around the rim and thinner edges.

  • Made at Leach Pottery, St Ives
  • Deep black Tenmoku iron-rich glaze
  • Rusty red-brown breaks at the rim
  • Stoneware clay, reduction-fired in Cornwall
  • Oven and microwave safe
  • 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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