Tile
ca. 1950-1959 (designed and made)
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Square stoneware tile, with painting in brown and dull blue on a grey glaze, depicting a rain cloud over the sea. The tile press-moulded, and of industrial manufacture.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Stoneware, press-moulded, with painted decoration over a grey glaze |
| Brief description | Tile of stoneware, decoration on blank tile by Bernard Leach, glaze and painting, St. Ives, Cornwall, c.1950-60. |
| Physical description | Square stoneware tile, with painting in brown and dull blue on a grey glaze, depicting a rain cloud over the sea. The tile press-moulded, and of industrial manufacture. |
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| Object history | Unprovenanced find. |
| Production | Decorated by Bernard Leach at the Leach Pottery, St Ives, using an industrially produced tile blank, probably supplied by Candy & Co. Ltd of Newton Abbot, Devon. |
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| Accession number | C.89-1997 |
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| Record created | February 16, 2006 |
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