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Founding of the Leach Pottery

Foundings and Institutional Origins

Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada's founding of a pottery at St Ives, Cornwall in 1920, with the first traditional Japanese climbing kiln in the West. The workshop joined East Asian and English country pottery traditions and trained generations of apprentices, becoming the wellspring of the studio pottery movement. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Milestone Year
1920 1
When
Founded in 1920 by Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada in St Ives, Cornwall. 1
Location
St Ives, Cornwall, United Kingdom 1
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Bernard Leach, Figures
Source Leach Pottery (Wikipedia)
Shoji Hamada, Figures
Source Leach Pottery (Wikipedia)
Studio Pottery, Concepts and Movements
Source Leach Pottery (Wikipedia)
Sources
1. Leach Pottery (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Lead section
    The Leach Pottery was founded in 1920 by Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada in St Ives, Cornwall, in the United Kingdom.
  • History section
    In 1922 Tsuronosuke Matsubayashi came from Japan to rebuild an unsuccessful climbing kiln for the pottery.
  • Standard Ware paragraph
    The pottery's Standard Ware was first issued in 1946 and can be found in the V&A collection.
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