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Katherine Pleydell-Bouverie (1895–1985)
Two small stoneware vases and a stoneware cup:

The vase decorated in an olive-green glaze falling short of the foot, the body with a thick incised vertical line design between two bands of incised dots, impressed KPB seal to edge of foot

The vase decorated in a celadon glaze falling short of the foot, the body with a thick incised vertical line design between two bands of incised dots, impressed KPB seal to edge of foot, incised no. 239 within footring

The tall-sided cup decorated in a white glaze falling short of the foot, the sides with an incised spiral line design, impressed KPB seal to edge of foot and incised no. 237 within footring
9.5cm., 8.8cm. and 8.7cm. high respectively

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Katharine Pleydell-Bouverie is considered one of the pioneer woman of British studio ceramics. She studied ceramics at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, London (1921-23) and her formative training was a year spent in St Ives at the Leach Pottery in 1924. She then set up the Cole Pottery at Mill Cottage, assisted by Ada (Peter) Mason, where they experimented with wood and vegetable ash glazes on individual stoneware pots and vases. In 1946 she moved to Kilmington Manor, Wiltshire and there built an oil-fired kiln, replaced by an electric one in 1960. She continued to exhibit in the sixties and seventies.

For a number of works by Catherine Pleydell-Bouverie in the Crafts Study Centre, Farnham, Surrey, United Kingdom, go to http://www.vads.ac.uk/learning/learndex.php?theme_id=cscu1_record_id=cscu1pleyd=cscu1ceram=p_74_191_q

For a similar shape vase in the Aberystwyth University Ceramic Collection and Archive, go to http://www.ceramics-aberystwyth.com/pleydellbouveriek-c1220.html