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Re: David Leach, Lowerdown Pottery
by Potty February 17th 2013, 3:15 pm
Looks like the Lowerdown Pottery mark, not sure about the other.
We could do with a better picture of just the marks to be honest.
We could do with a better picture of just the marks to be honest.
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Re: David Leach, Lowerdown Pottery
by studio-pots February 17th 2013, 4:33 pm
The second mark does look like the Lowerdown Cross mark - in real life does it appear to be an L with a + sitting in it?
I can't see the other mark but might it be JL for Jeremy?
I can't see the other mark but might it be JL for Jeremy?
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Re: David Leach, Lowerdown Pottery
by NaomiM February 17th 2013, 6:44 pm
The second mark does look like the Lowerdown Cross mark
Agreed.
Could the 1st one be RB for Richard Brooks? Or Brooks' other mark of a cross and 4 dots? - assuming he ever used that mark at Lowerdown.
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Re: David Leach, Lowerdown Pottery
by andy.pauline February 17th 2013, 7:21 pm
The first one looks like 4 dots in a circle.. The second looks like the L and a cross...
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Re: David Leach, Lowerdown Pottery
by studio-pots February 17th 2013, 8:24 pm
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Until you mentioned the name it was someone that I had never heard of but not only did he train with David for 3 years but also appears to have visited in 2001 and it seems made some pots.
I did manage to find a fluted bowl by him on the net with the Lowerdown Cross mark but it had his RB personal seal. The four dot mark around the cross seems to be the mark for his pottery in Australia so it seems unlikely that he would have used that when visiting David in 2001. Maybe though!
Could the 1st one be RB for Richard Brooks? Or Brooks' other mark of a cross and 4 dots? - assuming he ever used that mark at Lowerdown.
Until you mentioned the name it was someone that I had never heard of but not only did he train with David for 3 years but also appears to have visited in 2001 and it seems made some pots.
I did manage to find a fluted bowl by him on the net with the Lowerdown Cross mark but it had his RB personal seal. The four dot mark around the cross seems to be the mark for his pottery in Australia so it seems unlikely that he would have used that when visiting David in 2001. Maybe though!
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Re: David Leach, Lowerdown Pottery
by andy.pauline February 17th 2013, 11:14 pm
Thanks Naiomi thats what i had seen as well, the circular mark could be initials but unreadable i was hoping it was David Leach very Hamada in style the way it was wax resisted... I was delighted to get it and is my favourite pot at the moment... Richard Brooks had a heavy cross on it and a dot in each corner...
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Re: David Leach, Lowerdown Pottery
by Potty February 17th 2013, 11:39 pm
Forgetting the mark (I can't make it out), the pot itself reminds me of Jeremy Leach's work.
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Re: David Leach, Lowerdown Pottery
by studio-pots February 17th 2013, 11:52 pm
Potty wrote:Forgetting the mark (I can't make it out), the pot itself reminds me of Jeremy Leach's work.
That is the most likely as he has been working there since his father's death until sometime last year.
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Re: David Leach, Lowerdown Pottery
by skipposal March 13th 2013, 8:24 pm
Beautiful lustrous glaze on this Lowerdown Jug added to my collection last year off ebay. 14.5 cm (height)
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David Leach
by studio-pots April 23rd 2013, 8:34 pm
We do have a thread in this section for pots produced at the Lowerdown Pottery, which was set up by David Leach in 1956, but no thread for his individual work produced there or elsewhere by him so here goes.
A squat stoneware vase, 4.4 inches/11.2cm tall: -
Personal LD seal and Lowerdown Cross seal (L+)
A squat stoneware vase, 4.4 inches/11.2cm tall: -
Personal LD seal and Lowerdown Cross seal (L+)
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Re: David Leach, Lowerdown Pottery
by studio-pots April 23rd 2013, 8:39 pm
The next geometric patterned stoneware vase was made at Loughborough during the time that he was a part time lecturer there during the early 1960s.
So a rare mark: -
So a rare mark: -
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Re: David Leach, Lowerdown Pottery
by Potty May 6th 2013, 10:59 pm
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Re: David Leach, Lowerdown Pottery
by skipposal June 18th 2013, 7:46 pm
Interesting that you leave the exhibition label on philpot. I used to take them off contemporary work I bought but don't anymore as I realise they are part of the history of the pot
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Re: David Leach, Lowerdown Pottery
by big ed June 18th 2013, 8:06 pm
How can a red sold dot be part of the history of a piece ? 
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Re: David Leach, Lowerdown Pottery
by studio-pots June 18th 2013, 8:25 pm
Not only did Bill Ismay do that he also took photographs of where the pieces he bought were placed in an exhibition. He got an MBE for his efforts.
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Re: David Leach, Lowerdown Pottery
by skipposal June 18th 2013, 8:30 pm
Nice" I've started a related thread under General Pottery discussion
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Re: David Leach, Lowerdown Pottery
by big ed June 18th 2013, 8:48 pm
He should have seen a doctorstudio-pots wrote:Not only did Bill Ismay do that he also took photographs of where the pieces he bought were placed in an exhibition. He got an MBE for his efforts.
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Re: David Leach, Lowerdown Pottery
by studio-pots June 18th 2013, 9:00 pm
He was a trained librarian and in that line of business it helps.
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Re: David Leach, Lowerdown Pottery
by big ed June 18th 2013, 9:05 pm
MMmmm not really , taking pics of where pots were isn't the action of a sane person imostudio-pots wrote:He was a trained librarian and in that line of business it helps.
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Re: David Leach, Lowerdown Pottery
by philpot June 18th 2013, 9:11 pm
Actually I bought that one at the Rev Norman Smith studio pottery sale at Chichester last year. I have kept the label on purely in the desperately vague hope that I might trace what exhibition it came from.
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