The Leach Pottery: a living tradition

摘要

The Leach Pottery is inimitable. The fact it was established by an 'artist-potter' in St Ives, Cornwall, who had returned from training in Japan is unusual. That it survived a century of scarce financial pickings for the artist-potter is remarkable. It has seen off the Great Depression and the Great Recession, punctuated by the Second World War. It has witnessed societal changes including women's suffrage, increasing social mobility and improving public education. The Machine Age and the Atomic Age passed as the Mechanical and Industrial fell and the Digital and Information Age surged. Yet the Leach Pottery remains.