The Leach Pottery. St Ives

It will have a name and is probably creamy oatmeal with rust trim. They are terms that the Leach Pottery used. I've not just made them up.

That sounds perfectly reasonable SP.

Oh.. another standard ware milk jug 4.5 in high boot find.
An almost unreadable tiny mark, but the "ENGLAND" was, as ususal the giveaway.

Tea bowl by Roelof Uys, Leach St Ives Pottery

Bill Marshall porcelain yunomi. Made at the Leach Pottery probably mid to late 1960s.


Interestingly, Bill has incised his personal mark and Leach Pottery mark on the base.

Freshly discovered.

Nice dish :)

NaomiM wrote:Nice dish :)

Thank you! I'm ecstatic.

Also these:


Kenneth Quick



William Marshall (the mark is easier to see in 'real life')

I hate to feel like I'm bragging...but I have to show someone, and no one in my immediate vicinity has any clue why I'm so excited about these pieces. Thanks for looking! Woohoo!

You've done well. The Bernard Leach dish looks especially fine.

Thanks again-
Last piece:


Janet Leach Vase

Small pot with a green interior and Leach stamp. There is no other id stamp or mark. It's roughly about 10cm across the lid. Is it likely to be from a standard ware range?

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=1954+leach+standard+ware+catalogue&espv=2&rlz=1C1AVNE_enGB622GB622&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiHgbXuvIXPAhXHLMAKHfiYAi8Q_AUICSgC&biw=1093&bih=522#imgrc=MNQcABYOnQmm0M%3A

Looks very like no. 63, top left of 1954 catalogue...

You're right, it looks exactly like that...1954!
Thanks Essenjay.

A bit about the recent Japanese potters exhibition at Leach Pottery St Ives. Includes mention of firing up the old soda kiln at the pottery. I think there was discussion a while back about a soda glazed vase with a Janet Leach stamp; this may clear up some of the confusion

Soup bowls with impressed St Ives mark

would these have been sold as seconds?

I don't think so. It looks like the same glaze recipie as that used in the 70s by David Leach and Colin Pearson at The Friars Aylesford Pottery, and by John Leach at Muchelney Pottery. It had a habit of breaking like that.

I deserve this! Baking today. 27 in our 'air conditioned' offices.

Standard ware tall mug (mark visible but unphotographable):

Here's a Jason Wason vase that's about 20cm tall.

I think Jason was at Leach between 1976 and 1981.

Two small dishes - about 9cm across...

I think this is St Ives, sold it ages ago...




I just found a post i made in 2008 on another forum, the item appears with this mark, so it's 100% St Ives. Found an uncropped version of the mark too, it matches the pattern...