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Provenance
J.M.W. Crowther, London, circa 1958
Thence by descent to the present owner
Literature
Sarah Riddick, Pioneer Studio Pottery: The Milner-White Collection, London, 1990, pl. 1 for a comparable vase
Oliver Watson, Bernard Leach: Potter and Artist, exh. cat., Crafts Council, London, 1997, pl. 125, 127 for comparable vases
Edmund de Waal, Bernard Leach, London, 1999, cover, p. 60 for a comparable vase
Mr J.M.W. Crowther was a prolific collector of British studio ceramics, including works by Bernard Leach, Michael Cardew, Katharine Pleydell-Bouverie, Lucie Rie and Hans Coper, amongst others, and visited the latter at his studio. Mr Crowther was a great collector and admirer of Leach's work, loaning several pieces from his collection to the artist's 1977 retrospective at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Comparable examples of the present vase are held in the collections of the Leicester City Museums and the Cooper Hewitt, New York.