David Leach, Lowerdown Pottery

It’s Lowerdown standardware but David Leach wasn’t the only potter so without a personal stamp it’s not possible to attribute it to him personally

David did much of the Standard Ware stuff in the later years (after Tim Andrews) and intentionally did not put his own mark on it so that he had things at different prices in his showroom. We use a couple of bowls everyday with the Lowerdown mark only and we know that David made them as he told us when he sold them to us. However, they were made for use and not to be collected and attributing any of these piece to him seems a little unfair to the potter to my mind. However, I think it fair to say that the decoration on this teapot is too clumsy for it be David's.

A 9in high stoneware vase, found today.

A good size and, I assume, you got it for a very competitive price!

Nice to find a lowerdown mark (and even nicer to find a hand signed D.L. on bottom) seen the LD stamp often but not a personal sig.







Happy Days!!!

studio-pots wrote:A good size and, I assume, you got it for a very competitive price!

Afraid so SP. My first boot of the year, That's my one good find ticked off for 2019, just junk from now on I fear.

denbydump wrote:

studio-pots wrote:A good size and, I assume, you got it for a very competitive price!

Afraid so SP. My first boot of the year, That's my one good find ticked off for 2019, just junk from now on I fear.

You put in the miles and so thoroughly deserve it.

MCWebs wrote:Nice to find a lowerdown mark (and even nicer to find a hand signed D.L. on bottom) seen the LD stamp often but not a personal sig.



Happy Days!!!

He did that when the original plan was to sell it as a Lowerdown piece i.e. cheaply but after decorating he was especially pleased with that aspect and so "upgraded" it.

studio-pots wrote:

denbydump wrote:

studio-pots wrote:A good size and, I assume, you got it for a very competitive price!

Afraid so SP. My first boot of the year, That's my one good find ticked off for 2019, just junk from now on I fear.

You put in the miles and so thoroughly deserve it.

Strangely this was only 15 mins away, but was there at 0540 with a torch.

2 little condiment bottles with caligraphy, and luckily with their tiny stoppers.

Interestingly the sgraffito motif either side of the writing, is identical
to that on Naomi's storage jar shown earlier in the thread.

My weekly DL pick-up, a golf-ball sized miniature.

I hope this is in the right thread, there are no other marks to indicate a specific pottery but you guys will know better than me.  There is some mega damage to one handle but I don't mind, it is yellower than the photo suggests and I am just happy it didn't go in the bin

Picked up this very nice David Leach early Lowerdown tin glazed butter dish with DL stamp. Body made of red earthenware.

I think It's more likely for cheese. Nice thing amyway.
I'll move it to the DL thread.

Very small, just over 14 cm wide and I thought a small round butter maybe. Cheers for the bump over to DL thread.

Ok, yes that is small, but just right for a small round Stilton or Camambert!

Earthenware piece made for about 5 years from the mid 50's after he left the Leach pottery and moved to Lowerdown. Butter dish perhaps?

A cut sided porcelain footed bowl, with an interesting glaze.

A couple of David Leach pieces from the estate sale of Harry Horlock Stringers wife. I often think some of his best work was on this smaller more intimate scale.

A large stoneware tankard with a fantastic tenmoku glaze, mainly brown if you're right-handed, mainly black if (like me) you're left-handed. The upper half of the seal is filled with glaze.

Everything about it screams Lowerdown to me, and the visible lower part of the seal could be the bottom stroke of the Lowerdown L. But there's no way to tell if this signifies the generic L+ mark or David Leach's personal LD mark.

Or maybe it's not the bottom of an L at all? Maybe it's something else entirely?

Any comments, please?

Definitely a Lowerdown tankard. I think the mark is the L+ where the + has a split tail. It’s not an LD mark

https://www.20thcenturyforum.com/t9953p25-lowerdown-pottery#141537

Thank you Naomi. That's it! I've never seen the Lowerdown cross with a bifurcated tail. Any idea if it has some particular significance?

I assumed it was an early version of the mark. Tbh I don’t even know why he used a cross in the first place

The site of the bungalow and pottery is near a cross roads at Lowerdown, which is just a few houses. That's my understanding and it was called that before David bought the property.