The Leach Pottery. St Ives

Exhibition of early Leach St Ives Pottery at Farnham College several years ago

I 'll take the little yellow milk jug, No. 62. Unusual shape. The pattern book is unusual & interesting. I wonder if in 100 years all this information will be online and popularity will grow or if it will fade away.

Purchased at auction in Warrington. I know it’s leach pottery just wondering if anyone can give an approximate date or attribute a maker. It looks like an early piece to me but I’m a complete novice. I will have better pictures when I collect it. Any thoughts appreciated.

Many thanks. I will hopefully know more when I collect it

I concur with philpot's thoughts and it looks to be from the 1930s.

I am assuming that it's quite small and a beaker?

Yes it’s a beaker

Absolutely fascinating, many thanks for the info. Learning all the time. It’s a fabulous little item

studio-pots wrote:A "Small Cream Jug" with glaze A (Black to rust tenmoku) priced at 75p back in 1975. The glaze is at the rust end of the glaze spectrum.

Saw a similar one this weekend, but with additional decoration down the front. Unfortunately locked in a cabinet so I couldn’t see the rest

I think that might be from the 1930s and in earthenware, Naomi, as I have something similar that I will photograph and post when I remember.

You could have turned the bowl over, philpot, with the muesli still in to photograph the mark ....... and the mess.

I know it sounds odd but try Muesli with either orange juice or grapefruit juice and finely chopped apple... it's amazing

Lol - well cow juice is just liquid fat!

Saw this for sale on eBay - didn’t really know what it was other than by someone at Leach.
Bought it and saw that it appeared to say 10 shillings in pencil in the footring.
Research showed that at number 9 in the catalogue of 1952 was a “small decorated bowl” measuring 5” x 1” for sale at 10 shillings.
My suggestion is that these bowls are Leach standard ware hence there are no personal marks on them.
My catalogue of 1946 shows the price as 5 shillings so I think it would be a fair assumption to believe this bowl was produced c 1950.
I looked back at this thread and saw a couple of similar examples but I’m not sure they were identified as standard ware.

Due to it's length I've moved the discussion about the oak leaf decoration to the General Pottery Discussion forum -

https://www.20thcenturyforum.com/t33436-oak-leaf-design-on-leach-st-ives-standard-ware-bernard-leach-discussion

Neil62 wrote:

philpot wrote:Nice little bowl. Interesting for the decoration on Standard ware I would think. It just the internal decoration that is unusual. But then circa 1950 They had Both Michael and David Leach as well as Bernard and Bill Marshall working there. So there would probably have been a far greater latitude as to what personal touches they did to the standard ware pieces.

Hi Philpot,
The back of the catalogue explained that for a extra cost of between 10 shillings and £10 you could have a piece made by BL or DL BUT it would have their personal marks on which obviously these standardware decorated bowls don’t. 
Interestingly the Teaset priced at £10 had description of some decorated items amongst them and some not.
These related to the “leaf decorated” items.
Kind regards 
Neil62

Jug by St Ives Pottery. Several fingerprints in the glaze. Underneath one is a partial St Ives mark