A Group of Four Serving Dishes, Two stoneware Butter Dishes and A Porringer, Leach Pottery Standard Ware

CIRCA 1950-70

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A Group of Four Serving Dishes, Two stoneware Butter Dishes and A Porringer, Leach Pottery Standard Ware
Circa 1950-70
The small flat dishes with vertical rim with pale greyish celadon glaze to the interior, the rim, sides and base unglazed, each with impressed S/I seal, with later fitted oak stand; the butter dishes decorated with a blue-green glaze to the interior and unglazed rim and exterior, S/I seal beside each foot; the porringer dipped in pale grey slip to the top of the footrim and decorated under a clear glaze with bands of cobalt and three calligraphic forms in iron oxide, impressed S/I seal to base, lacquer repair to rim
11.8cm. diam. (dishes), 8.5cm. diam. (butter dishes) and 13.5cm. diam. (porringer) (7)

Lot Essay

The design on the porringer is known as "z bowls" or "sparrow on a branch", they were among the finest of the Standard Wares. The Standard Ware range was discontinued by Janet at the end of the 1970's, after the death of Bernard in 1979 at 92 years of age. She took no more students at the pottery after this time so that she could concentrate on her own work.

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