Bottle
David Leach (1911 - 2005)
Category
Ceramics
Date
Unknown
Materials
Glazed stoneware
Measurements
186 mm (H); 92 mm (Dia)
Place of origin
Bovey Tracey
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Greenway, Devon
NT 118948
Summary
Hand-built, stoneware bottle of pentagonal section, with angular neck and everted rim, by David Leach of the Lowerdown Pottery, Bovey Tracey, Devon, probably made before c.1970; covered in deep tenmoku glaze breaking to kaki at edges; impressed personal mark to basal rim, adjacent to another impressed mark (unidentified), also price in guineas inscribed to base.
Provenance
Introduced to the Property by Anthony Hicks
Marks and inscriptions
Basal rim: ‘DL’ and ‘cM’ marks. Pencil inscription ‘3gns’ to base suggests a date before c.1970.
Makers and roles
David Leach (1911 - 2005), potter