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Click here to subscribeContemporary Michael Cardew C.B.E. (1901 - 1983), art pottery bowl with brown glazed and slip decoration - impressed marks, 31cm diameter.Provenance: Purchased from Austin / Desmond Fine Art Ltd. in 1991 for £2,430. Sold with receipt CONDITION REPORT Good original condition. No cracks or chips - some fritting to edges
BERNARD LEACH (1887-1979) - ARCHIVE OF LETTERS, JAPAN INTEREST a wonderful collection of approx 34 letters by Bernard Leach, sent in 1934 and 1935 to Laurie Cookes (later became Bernard's 2nd wife) from Japan. The letters are dated and are written on mostly rice paper, and the vast majority are signed Bernard or with his intials. The letters discuss life in Japan at that time, and are addressed from places such as Hiroshima, Kyoto, and Tokyo (one sent from Columbo) Some of the letters include designs for pottery, one letter dated 1935 has a variety of drawings of pottery and says 'These days have simply been full of potting, yesterday and the day before 200 slip decorations each'. Other letters discuss Japan in detail and include some drawings (local scenes, map of Japan, his lunch, etc), in one letter he says 'It is a very nice Hotel where I stayed last summer, overlooking Lake Shimji and I am very comfortable, that is as far as my ageing joints allow comfort'. In another he mentions an exhibition and adds some drawings, It is a room in which there are successful combinations of Japanese architecture and materials with European usage. I have attempted many things which have not been tried before, thousands are visiting the exhibition and buying. Weaving and Spinning, wood turning and toy making, painting, lacquer lettering'. Another letter titled Impressions of Japan after 14 years by Bernard Leach, 1934, appears to be for an article he had written and asks for it's return. In another he had drawn a mountain range in Kamigawa, which is dated 1935 and signed with intials, titled A Happy New Year. This lot also includes a long letter from Michael Cardew to Bernard Leach in 1938 (on Winchcombe Pottery paper) which starts Dear Leach, a Leach Pottery Catalogue from 1954, and some photographs of Dartington Hall and Bernard Leach (Camera Study by Stuart Black, Torquay). *In 1934 Bernard was invited to Japan as a guest of the National Craft Society and went out with his friend the American Artist Mark Tobey. Bernard stayed for a year and held several exhibitions of his work, both drawings and pots in Japan and Korea. In 1935 he returned to Dartington and St Ives and later in 1944 married Laurie Cookes. This archive has been passed to Maurice Leach, the adopted son of Bernard and Laurie who originally was an infant evacuee during the War.
MICHAEL CARDEW (1901-1983) for Abuja Pottery; a stoneware vessel with screw top lid covered in tenmoku and kaki glaze, impressed MC and pottery marks, height 9cm. (D) CONDITION REPORT: Appears good with no obvious signs of faults, damage or restoration.This lot qualifies for Artist Resale Rights. For further information, please visit http://www.dacs.org.uk
Michael Cardew (British 1901-1983) for Wenford Bridge Pottery, a double jam pot with lids, celadon glaze, blue and rust scrolling designs, impressed marks, 21cm wide, accompanied by two pieces of Cardew's headed paper bearing hand written verses from Shakespeare's poem The Phoenix and the Turtle/Provenance: a gift from Cardew to the vendor's mother Condition Report: ARR Artist's Resale Right may apply to the sale of this lot. For further information please ask Chorley's or visit www.dacs.org.ukCondition report: In good condition. No chips, cracks or restoration
NIGERIA PUBLICATION.A scarce signed copy of 'A Chronicle of Abuju', a 1962 publication featuring an article on 'The Pottery Training Centre' Abuja. Signed 'Michael Cardew, Abuja 24. Dec. 1962. Also a copy of 'Dictionary of the Hausa Language' inscribed 'M. A. Cardew J. R. Holden 1954' in what appears to be Michael Cardew's handwriting.
MIRANDA THOMAS.A porcelain, celadon glazed footed bowl with lightly incised decoration by Miranda Thomas. Diameter 15cm. Height 11.5cm. Impressed marks. Slightly mis-shapen.Note: This renowned American born potter worked as an apprentice with Michael Cardew & trained at West Surrey College, Farnham. She now runs the Shackleton/Thomas furniture & pottery craft workshops in Vermont with the furniture maker Charles Shackleton.
MICHAEL CARDEW. WENFORD BRIDGE. Two twin-handled lidded jars. One decorated with fish the other stylised leaves. Personal & Pottery marks. Height 24cm. Both lids broken, reassembled & glued. Fish jar has damage to inner rim.Please note: Our in-house postal shipping service is not available for this lot due to its size or fragility. We can recommend other carriers.
MICHAEL CARDEW. WENFORD BRIDGE. A cider flagon with threaded stopper & incised decoration. Personal & Pottery marks. Height 43cm. Illustrated on the poster for the Crafts South West exhibition at Trellowarren, Cornwall in 1980. A copy of the original poster is included with this lot.Please note: Our in-house postal shipping service is not available for this lot due to its size or fragility. We can recommend other carriers.
*Leach (Bernard, 1887-1979). Celadon glaze rectangular box, the cover with a snail finial and wavy incised marks, two seal marks to base, 8cm high x 15cm wide 10cm deep, with old price label possibly the original, damage to the finial together with an Alan Caiger-Smith twin handle bowl, with stylised black and green decoration on a white ground, painted marks to base 16cm high x 32cm wide, cracked, plus a Michael Cardew Winchcombe pottery three handle vase in a dripping brown and black glaze, two seal marks to base, 20cm high, restored plus a large studio pottery charges with a marbled glaze, 43.5cm diameter (4)
AUTOGRAPH ALBUM: An autograph album containing over 100 signatures by various film and stage actors and actresses, entertainers etc., including Margaret Rutherford, Jean Simmons, Nigel Patrick, Paul Lukas, Jean Kent, Robert Morley, Googie Withers, Esmond Knight, Anton Dolin, Elisabeth Welch, Reg Varney, Alicia Markova, Cardew Robinson, Gladys Cooper, David Tomlinson, Michael Redgrave, Edith Evans, Dennis Price, Cecil Parker, Moira Shearer, Sybil Thorndike, Yolande Donlan, Richard Attenborough, Paul Scofield, Sheila Sim, Diane Hart, Richard Hearne, Diana Churchill, Chili Bouchier, Roger Livesey, Margaret Lockwood, Tessie O'Shea, Virginia McKenna, Joan Greenwood, Ralph Richardson, Maurice Chevalier, Mary Ellis, Eric Portman, Ronald Shiner, Kay Kendall, Richard Greene, Beatrice Lillie, Julie Andrews, Jack Elliot, R. W. T. Horsley, John Wilson and other De Havilland Test Pilots etc. Most pages are multiple signed. Together with a slim oblong 4to photograph album containing eight vintage signed postcard photographs by various actors, actresses and entertainers etc., each neatly cornermounted to pages, including Clive Brook, Joan Hopkins, Griffith Jones, Marie Burke, Vera Lynn etc., some facsimile and unsigned, G to VG, 2
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