Studio Ceramics Collection
Bernard Leach
Bernard Leach 1887-1979 Bernard Leach was born in Hong Kong and educated in England. At the age of sixteen he attended the Slade School of Art under the instruction of Henry Tonks before studying etching at the London School of Art with Frank B...
Elijah Comfort
Elijah Comfort 1863-1949 Elijah Comfort was taught to throw pots by his father William, the foreman at Leckhampton Potteries. Elijah held the position of chief thrower at Becketts Pottery until its closure in 1914. From 1926 until the 2nd Wo...
George Cox
George Cox George Cox was one of the first studio potters of the twentieth century. Having trained in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art, he established his own studio pottery at Mortlake, Surrey in 1911. There he experimented with pots w...
Henry Bergen
Henry Bergen 1873-1950 Henry Bergen was an American academic who lived in England and who found great pleasure in collecting Studio Pottery. He often visited Bernard Leach at St. Ives and Michael Cardew at Winchcombe Pottery where he decorat...
Katharine Pleydell-Bouverie
Katharine Pleydell-Bouverie 1895-1985 Katharine Pleydell-Bouverie or 'Bina' as she liked to be called, was born into a wealthy family and raised on the Coleshill estate in Berkshire. During the First World War she went to France and joined t...
Michael Cardew
Michael Cardew 1901-1983 Michael Cardew first learned to throw in 1921 at Fishley Holland's Braunton Pottery in Devon. From 1923 - 1926 he worked at the Leach Pottery in St. Ives, Cornwall, throwing plates and bowls for Bernard Leach to decorat...
Norah Braden
Norah Braden 1901- Norah Braden studied at The Central School of Arts and Crafts, The Royal College of Art and The Leach Pottery. She was described by Bernard Leach as his most gifted pupil. From 1928 - 1936 she worked at Cole Pottery with K...
Ray Finch
Ray Finch 1914- Ray Finch left school at fifteen to work at a paper mill in Buckinghamshire. In 1935 he attended the Central School of Art, London, under the instruction of Dora Billington, who helped him to establish his pottery making skills....
Shoji Hamada
Shoji Hamada Born in Tokyo, Japan, Hamada spent a great deal of his childhood experimenting with art. In 1913 he enrolled in the ceramics department of Tokyo advanced technical college, and by 1916 was working in the Kyoto Municipal ceramic ...
Sidney Tustin
Sidney Tustin 1913- 2005 Sidney Tustin worked at Winchcombe Pottery from 1927 doing odd jobs. In 1929 be began a three year apprenticeship under Michael Cardew. In Ron Wheeler's book, Winchcombe Pottery, he recalls the fundamental decorativ...
Tsurunosuke Matsubayashi
Tsurunosuke Matsubayashi was the thirty-ninth generation of the Uji family of potters from the Asaki pottery in Uji, Japan. He trained as an engineer, ceramic chemist and also as a craftsman. Matsubayashi was an old school friend of Shoji Ha...
William Staite - Murray
William Staite-Murray 1881-1962 As a child William Staite-Murray had always had an interest in art, but his father was adamant that his son would not pursue this as a career, and sent him to Holland to work for a bulb and seed merchants. Whe...
