Malcolm Pepper 1937-80
Stoneware bottle vase, elegant and strong broad cut-facets. Brown Honan type glaze. A classically inspired piece by Pepper. Marked to the inside of the turned foot with the maker's personal mark.

Private Collection UK

Geoffrey Whiting 1919 - 1988
Porcelain bottle vase. Made at St Augustines, Canterbury, Kent 1982

Celadon glaze, blue/green. Impressed Geoffrey Whiting's personal seal to outside of base.
H. 21.0cm: Diam 12.0cm,

Private Collection

Bernard Leach 1887 - 1979
Stoneware Bottle Vase, made at St Ives 60's.

White slip under a cone 8 glaze, with iron brush work
Impressed St Ives and Bernard Leach's personal seal.
H.34.2 cm: Diam 14.8 cm,

These bottle vases decorated with leaping fish are perhaps some of Bernard Leach's most iconic pots.. Bernard Leach's pattern making and understanding of decoration were his real strength. The composition of this pattern locked within banding and having a rhythm that flows around the pot exemplify his understanding of pattern on a curved surface. These bottles and decoration have the qualities of the finest Song Dynasty pottery that Bernard so admired.

Private Collection, USA

David Leach 1911- 2005
Bottle Vase, Lowerdown Pottery, Bovey Tracey Devon, 1976
Light grey stoneware body, tenmoku glaze with illmenite decoration, in this case David's most well known pattern, the so named Foxglove.
Impressed DL, David Leach's personal mark.
H. 16.3cm

This bottle was purchased from The Casson Gallery at the book launch of Potters on Pottery by Elisabeth Cameron and Philippa Lewis. David brought it to London with him especially for the Sunday morning PV.

Private Collection