SALE * Signed - Michael Leach /Yelland Pottery stoneware lidded pitcher

Signed-Michael Leach /Yelland Pottery Celadon oxide/ slip sumi brush style stoneware lidded pitcher Excellent condition no chips, no cracks, no glaze flaws food safe glaze Dimensions ~ 7.5” H x 4.5” W wheel thrown stoneware celadon glaze oxide / slip sumi brush style accents Michael Leach (1913-85) was Bernard Leach’s 2nd son, the younger brother of David. He is well-known for establishing Yelland Pottery in North Devon, in 1956. Michael engaged with the Leach Pottery from as early as 1922, spending afternoons under the tutelage of Shoji Hamada. After studying Natural Sciences in Cambridge in the early 1930s, he returned to the Leach Pottery in the late 1930s. Interrupted by the War, he joined the Pioneer Corps & was stationed in East Africa where he helped established two potteries making wares for the troops. 1947, Michael spent time at Wrecclesham Pottery, Farnham, before assisting Agnete Hoy at Bullers Factory in Stoke-on-Trent. 1948, he returned to St Ives to work under his brother David and taught at Penzance School of Art. In 1955 Michael Leach and his brother David decided to part company with the Leach Pottery at St Ives. His brother David set up the Aylesford Pottery in Kent and Michael started the Yelland Manor Pottery, better known as just Yelland Pottery, at Fremington in North Devon. Retired from creating pottery in the 1984 for health reasons, died in 1985. #5555