Janet Leach
American/British · 1918–1997
Janet Darnell Leach, was an American studio potter working in later life at the Leach Pottery in St Ives, Cornwall in England. After studying pottery at Black Mountain, North… (Wikipedia)
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Large bottle vase with lugsPhillips · £6,930≈ $9,363≈ €8,101Sign up to see
VesselLyon & Turnbull · £2,000≈ $2,512≈ €2,383Sign up to see
Large fluted potBonhams · £1,664≈ $2,220≈ €1,925Sign up to see
Janet Leach’s highest prices recorded at auction, ranked in US dollars at each sale-date exchange rate and shown in the currency of the sale (with the buyer’s premium where the house publishes it).
Janet Darnell Leach, was an American studio potter working in later life at the Leach Pottery in St Ives, Cornwall in England. After studying pottery at Black Mountain, North Carolina under Shoji Hamada, a visiting artisan, she traveled to Japan to work with him. She studied with him for two years and always considered him to be her principal mentor. She was the first foreign woman to study pottery in Japan and only the second westerner.
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Also known as Janet Darnell Leach
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