Book Synopsis
This book, a companion title to Michael Cardew and the West Country Slipware Tradition and The Fishleys of Fremington, is the first comprehensive review of the early slipwares of the Leach Pottery yet published, with in excess of 180 illustrations of pots by Leach, Hamada and Cardew from all the major UK national collections of Studio ceramics, together with examples from regional museums and private collections. The Leach Pottery is probably best known internationally for its stonewares. This important study of a uniquely colourful and varied period of production at St Ives reveals its influence on the subsequent forms, designs and aesthetics of St Ives, Mashiko and Winchcombe, so should equally appeal to collectors and connoisseurs of later work by Leach, Hamada and Cardew.
ISBN: 0-978-09550315-5-7 (softback); 0-978-09550315-6-4 (hardback)
Size, Specifications and Contents:
- 24 x 17 cms (hardback slightly larger)
- 160 pages in full colour
- £27.50 plus £3.50 postage and packing (softback)
| Part 1 | BeginningsAn overview of the main formative influences on Leach and Hamada, in both the East and the West. |
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| Part 2 | The foundation of the Leach PotteryA recreation of slipware production at St Ives in the early 1920s, including clays, wheels, tools, glazes and firing. |
| Part 3 | A chronological illustration of formsA systematic profusely illustrated guide of slipware made there by Leach, Hamada and Cardew. An insight into the English style stonewares produced in Japan later that decade by Shoji Hamada and Kanjiro Kawai. Coverage of output at Dartington, South Devon and at the St Ives Pottery in the 1930s under Leach and Davis. |
| Part 4 | InterviewsA set of three interviews and discussions with top contemporary potters John Hudson, Andrew McGarva and Peter Smith covering related issues of making and decorating, traditions, kilns and clays. |
| Part 5 | EssayA study by Dr Oliver Kent looking at the influence of 'the English Tradition' on issues of forms and firing at the Leach Pottery. |
| Part 6 | AppendicesA fully illustrated and dated analysis of:
A technical overview of slipware glazes and oxidised raku. |
This important specialised title is launched to mark the 90th anniversary of the establishment of the Leach Pottery in 1920.
