Ovoid Vase ca 1928 Stoneware; ht. 12, dia 5 in. Artist stamp on base and on foot. A pioneer of British Studio Pottery, Pleydell-Bouverie’s interest in pottery began when she visited Roger Fry at his Omega Workshops which led to her studying pottery with Dora Billington. In 1924 she was taken on by Bernard Leach and remained at the Leach Pottery for a year and learnt alongside Michael Cardew and Shoji Hamada In 1925 she started her first pottery and in 1946 created her second pottery at Kilmington Manor where she worked until her death in 1985. Pleydell-Bouverie described herself as “a simple potter. I like a pot to be a pot, a vessel with a hole in it, made for a purpose”.
Ovoid Vase ca 1928 Stoneware; ht. 12, dia 5 in. Artist stamp on base and on foot. A pioneer of British Studio Pottery, Pleydell-Bouverie’s interest in pottery began when she visited Roger Fry at his Omega Workshops which led to her studying pottery with Dora Billington. In 1924 she was taken on by Bernard Leach and remained at the Leach Pottery for a year and learnt alongside Michael Cardew and Shoji Hamada In 1925 she started her first pottery and in 1946 created her second pottery at Kilmington Manor where she worked until her death in 1985. Pleydell-Bouverie described herself as “a simple potter. I like a pot to be a pot, a vessel with a hole in it, made for a purpose”.
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