Two-Handled Brown Vase/Crock (circa 1930)

Michael Ambrose Cardew

slipware

Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums

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Classification:

Craft, Pottery, Ceramic

Materials:

Slipware

Physical Object Description:

Paper labels (x3) on bottom with no. 63 [CAS catalogue] and a paper label, no. 10. Mark: WP in monogram (Winchcombe Pottery)

Dimensions:

24.2 x 22 x 22 cm

Accession Number:

ABDMS006509

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1943

Scheme:

Pottery and Crafts Fund (1928-1948)

Ownership history:

Purchased from the Cotswold Gallery, London by Ernest Marsh (1863-1945) for the Contemporary Art Society, with its Pottery and Crafts Fund, 1931; presented to Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums, 1943

Relationship:

Ernest Marsh Cotswold Gallery, London Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums

Michael Cardew became a pupil of Bernard Leach in 1923. He remained at the Leach Pottery in St Ives until 1926 when he bought Winchcombe Pottery in Gloucestershire where he made slipwares using traditional methods and local clays. In 1939 he moved to Wenford Bridge in Cornwall before a period of teaching in a college in Ghana. His time in Africa influenced the designs on his later pottery.

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