St Ives, Cornwall<\/a>, as part of a Guild of Handicrafts initiative in the town. He never left and continued potting there until 1972, when failing eyesight prompted his retirement.<\/p>\n\u2018Leach was a very strong character, a pioneer,\u2019 remembers the honorary lead potter at the still-thriving Leach Pottery, John Bedding, who was an apprentice under Leach in the early 1970s. \u2018He derived enormous pleasure from pottery and produced a high-quality alternative to the industrial-scale factory wares that he regarded as sterile and soulless. He wanted people to notice the irregularities of handcrafted pieces and to appreciate the marks of the maker\u2019s hand.\u2019<\/p>\n
Independent ceramics consultant Ben Williams agrees. \u2018Leach\u2019s work was a celebration of the \u201canonymous craftsman\u201d and over his long career he was inspired by slipware from England, salt glaze from Germany, celadon from Korea, Sung ware from China, and many types of Japanese pottery,\u2019 he says. \u2018Leach worked in earthenware, raku, stoneware and porcelain. There\u2019s nobody who had a range as diverse as he did.\u2019<\/p>\n
In the early days, Leach was assisted by his friend the Japanese potter Sh\u014dji Hamada. They took a holistic approach, building their own wood-fired kiln, digging local clay for potting, and making fine wood ash reduction glazes from local timber. Soon their rustic-looking wares were garnering both British and Japanese fans. From the outset, Leach wanted to improve the standards of ceramic training and took on apprentices for two-year periods. These are collectively known as \u2018Leach potters\u2019 and pieces by them can be picked up today from the low hundreds of pounds.<\/p>\n
Today, Bernard Leach\u2019s most valuable pieces are his early slipware dishes of the 1920s and 30s, which fetch from \u00a310,000 to \u00a330,000. While they rarely come up for sale, Leach estimated that he made 100,000 pots over his lifetime, so there are plenty more available. All standard-wares (for this, read bread-and-butter tableware sold through outlets such as Heal\u2019s and Liberty) designed by Leach and made at the Leach Pottery carry the \u2018SI\u2019 impressed mark (indicating \u2018St Ives\u2019). But some also carry a \u2018BL\u2019 impressed or painted mark, which means that Leach himself made or decorated the ceramic. While a simple \u2018SI\u2019-marked soup tureen could cost \u00a340 at auction, an example that also carries the \u2018BL\u2019 mark might reach \u00a31,200, according to Varrall-Jones.<\/p>\n
Lucie Rie<\/h3>\n While Leach was the leading light in studio pottery before the Second World War and into the 1950s and 60s, his good friend, the \u00e9migr\u00e9 Austrian potter Lucie Rie, in creative partnership with the German ceramicist Hans Coper, gradually took on the mantle in the post-war period. Based in London from 1938, Rie couldn\u2019t be more different from Leach in her style, offering a fashionable alternative to Leach\u2019s \u2018brown pots\u2019, as they became known. Without painted decoration, Rie\u2019s ceramics were urban and modernist in design, with a simplicity of line. Good examples of this were her footed bowls and trumpet bottles, which attracted many admiring glances at the Festival of Britain in 1951, where she exhibited.<\/p>\n
\u2018You don\u2019t need to know anything about pots to see that Rie\u2019s ceramics are beautiful,\u2019 says Varrall-Jones. Her iconic stoneware crockery sets \u2013 plates, cereal bowls, serving bowls, cups and saucers, and coffee pots, made from the 1950s onwards \u2013 consisted of white tin-glaze inner surfaces, with a matt conker-brown glaze on outer surfaces, decorated with a network of sgraffito lines applied with a needle. The sgraffito bowls, along with the coloured slip inlay bowls, are so popular today that they can command higher prices than Rie\u2019s standalone footed porcelain bowls, and fetch between \u00a330,000 and \u00a350,000. Rie also pushed the boundaries by using fabulously bright glazes \u2013 uranium yellow, copper greens and pinks, a peacock-blue \u2013 decorated with rims of \u2018volcanic\u2019 manganese and copper glaze that bubbled and dripped like a lava flow.<\/p>\n
Hans Coper<\/h3>\n In contrast to this, Coper\u2019s own highly distinctive style was influenced by Cycladic art dating from the Bronze Age, which he had seen at the British Museum in London. He created sculptural forms by throwing clay into shapes then joining two or more pieces together. His glazes were always black and\/or white. \u2018While Rie was prolific, rarely destroying any pots, Coper was the opposite, putting a hammer through much of it,\u2019 says Williams. Consequently, any Coper pots that come up for sale can fetch as much as \u00a350,000.<\/p>\n
Like Leach down in Cornwall, both Rie and Coper passed their skills on through teaching at the Camberwell School of Art and the Royal College of Art. Rie\u2019s students included Ewen Henderson and Coper\u2019s included Elizabeth Fritsch and Jacqueline Poncelet \u2013 all highly collectable potters now.<\/p>\n
Edmund de Waal<\/h3>\n A British ceramicist known for his large pottery installations and his distinct porcelain and ceramics with a celadon glaze. The unique style of his early pieces can be identified thanks to his creations taking the form of classic shapes and styles with the addition of indentations, pinches and subtle modifications to create something completely new, and at the time, never seen before. His pieces are most often in shades of white, and on rare occasions he would make limited addition pieces in black.<\/p>\n
Later in his career, he began to stray from his classic, more domestic-style pottery pieces and delved into the idea of large-scale vessels, varying from groups of ceramics to incorporating different materials, including metal to writing embossed into his creations for a completely different take on traditional Studio Pottery.<\/p>\n
Studio Pottery pieces by de Waal fetch high prices at auction. At a recent Sotheby\u2019s auction, a large lidded jar c1996 had an estimate of \u00a35,000 \u2013 \u00a38,000, and a tall dimpled porcelain lidded vase c1993 was estimated to sell for \u00a36,000 \u2013 \u00a38,000 at a Gorringes auction.<\/p>\n
How to display your British Studio Pottery collection<\/h2>\nCollate different shapes and sizes<\/h3>\n To show off a studio pottery collection to maximum effect, combine different shapes and styles that work together tonally against a plain background.<\/div>\n
Experiment with different textures<\/h3>\n Use rough linens and reclaimed wood to contrast with smooth ceramic surfaces on a dining table.<\/p>\n
Choose a colour palette<\/h3>\n The earthy colours and painterly glazes of studio ceramics combine to create a rich table collection.<\/p>\n
Equally, warm hues of mustard yellow and antique oak combine with cool stone grey pots to create a soothing and relaxed space<\/p>\n
Mix and match different Studio Pottery pieces<\/h3>\n Mix and match studio pottery for a relaxed look. A varied collection is easy to add to and doesn\u2019t feel too precious for everyday use.<\/p>\n
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