| Description | Correspondence and other records primarily regarding arrangements for an exhibition 'Bernard Leach: Fifty Years a Potter' (1961). Subjects include: a donation by Leonard Elmhirst towards a coloured plate for a catalogue of an exhibition of work by Bernard Leach 'Fifty Years of Potting'; the loan, insurance, collection and return of pieces of Bernard Leach pottery owned by Leonard Elmhirst to the Arts Council of Great Britain for an exhibition 'Bernard Leach: Fifty Years a Potter'; the restoration of a slipware dish loaned by Leonard Elmhirst which had been damaged at the exhibition'; the value for insurance of Studio Pottery in the Dartington Collection; and a possible exhibition at Dartington College of Arts of the work of Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada.
Correspondents include: George Wingfield Digby, Victoria and Albert Museum; Leonard Elmhirst; Elizabeth Davidson, Gabriel White and S Vigar Arts Council of Great Britain; and Dorothy Elmhirst.
Additional material includes: 'Bernard Leach - 50 Years a Potter' private view invitation; 'Bernard Leach, Fifty Years a Potter' catalogue; 'The Ceramic Wares of Hunan Province' catalogue; and 'Pottery by Bernard Leach, Crane Kalman Gallery' catalogue. |