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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 142, The Lydia and Manfred Gorvy Gallery

Vase

1931 (made)
Artist/Maker
Leach, Bernard (makers)

Vase, buff stoneware with decoration of fish incised through a band of dark grey pigment over a light grey slip under a clear glaze.


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Studio Pottery
Object type
Vase
Materials and techniques
Stoneware, decoration incised through a grey slip under a clear glaze
Stoneware
Physical description
Vase, buff stoneware with decoration of fish incised through a band of dark grey pigment over a light grey slip under a clear glaze.
Dimensions
  • Depth: 21.00cm
  • Height: 26.30cm
Marks and inscriptions
'BL' and 'SI' in monogram, impressed
Object history
Acquisition details: see Circ.144-1931
Production
Pottery: Leach Pottery, St Ives
Subject depicted
Fish
Bibliographic references
  • Watson, Oliver. British Studio Pottery : the Victoria and Albert Museum Collection, Oxford : Phaidon, Christie's, in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1990
  • Exhibition of stoneware pottery and porcelain by Kenkichi Tomimoto (of Tokyo) and Bernard Leach, London : Beaux Arts Gallery, 1931
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
CIRC.147-1931

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Record createdJanuary 14, 2000
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O19441/vase-leach-bernard/
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