‡ David Leach OBE (1911-2005) a Lowerdown Pottery Willow vase

‡ David Leach OBE (1911-2005)

a Lowerdown Pottery Willow vase, stoneware, ovoid form with collar rim, decorated in resist with a tenmoku willow tree, under thick and running Dolomite glaze, impressed seal mark to base, 28cm. high

Provenance

Contemporary Ceramics, Bonhams, London 21st March 1991, lot 25.

Exhibited

20th Century British Studio Pottery from the Collection of an Oxford Graduate, Ashmolean Museum 14th April-14th August 1994, catalogue number 9.

Literature

Emmanuel Cooper and Kathy Niblett David Leach, Richard Dennis Publications, page 92 for a bottle vase similar.