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| Collection | Crafts Study Centre | |
| Potter | Bernard Leach | |
| Description | Large circular deep rim dish, earthenware, honey and brown slip on a yellow background. | |
| Decoration | Brushed shadow puppet in centre. | |
| Id Number Current Accession | P.75.53 | |
| Inscription | BL on foot | |
| Location Creation Site | Leach Pottery, St. Ives, Cornwall, UK | |
| Subject | ceramics, dish, figures | |
| Measurements | 51.8 centimetres | |
| Material | earthenware | |
| History | The brushed decorated pattern is taken from an Indonesian shadow play. It was inspired by a shadow puppet brought back by Richard Odlin. | |
| Relation Exhibition | ´Concept and Form´, James Hockey Gallery, The Surrey Institute of Art & Design, 13 December 2002 to 3 February 2003 ´20th Century Studio Pottery´, Soviet Union, 1986 ´The Art of Bernard Leach´, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1977 | |
| Rights Owner | David Leach/Crafts Study Centre 2004 | |
| Style Period Period | 1930s | |
| Technique | throwing | |
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