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The Leach Pottery is a historic ceramics workshop founded in St Ives, Cornwall, in 1920 by Bernard Leach and Japanese potter Shoji Hamada. The pottery became instrumental in the development of the British studio pottery movement by integrating traditional Japanese and Korean techniques with English...
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Foundational British studio pottery figure; high historical influence through St Ives and Anglo-Japanese craft philosophy.
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Mashiko ware is a Japanese pottery tradition centered in Mashiko, a town in Tochigi Prefecture with local clay and a long history of utilitarian ceramic production. Bernard Leach and the potter Hamada Shoji helped connect Mashiko with the twentieth-century mingei movement, which valued functional ob...
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Important mingei pottery center, Shoji Hamada association, strong folk craft reputation, broad collector and museum respect.
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