Michael Cardew (1901-1983), decorated by Henry Bergen (1873-1950)
THE PROPERTY OF AN ENGLISH COLLECTOR
Michael Cardew (1901-1983), decorated by Henry Bergen (1873-1950)

CIRCA 1932

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Michael Cardew (1901-1983), decorated by Henry Bergen (1873-1950)
Circa 1932
A large earthenware dish decorated with cobalt, yellow and brown slip and a transparent lead glaze with a deer amongst woods, wide tapered rim impressed with a quote from Hamlet (Act 3, scene 2):
'WHY LET THE STRVCKEN DEERE GO WEEPE. THE HART VNGALLED PLAY. FOR SOME MVST WATCH WHILE SOME MVST SLEEPE. SO RVNNES THE WORLD AWAY.'
35.7cm. diam.

拍品專文

Henry Bergen, born in New York, was a writer and collector of early wares from St Ives and slipware from Winchcombe pottery, which have since been donated to the Potteries Museum in Stoke-On-Trent. Bergen, Leach, and later Michael Cardew became good friends and Bergen contributed greatly to promote Leach on the London scene from a literary side which came to fruition with the publication of A Potter's Book in 1940.

On his occasional visits at Winchcombe Pottery, he worked with Cardew and provided designs based on slip-resist techniques and impressed lettering as in this example.

For a similar example and further biography of Bergen, see John Edgeller, Slipware and St Ives: The Leach Pottery 1920 - 1937 (Winchcombe, 2010), pp. 21 - 22

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