Leach Janet
Janet Darnell was born in Grand Saline, Texas, USA in 1918. Her colourful early years involved moving to New York to work with sculptor Robert M. Cronbach and becoming involved with Federal Works Art Project. She was briefly married during Second World War and worked in a shipyard, undertaking welding.
Eventually she started work with clay and learned to use a potters wheel, coming to teaching pottery at mental health hospital in New York.
After meeting Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada at Black Mountain College, North Carolina she gained Hamada's agreement to go and work with him at Mashiko and traveled there in 1958, by cargo boat. Janet spent a great deal of time with Bernard Leach and eventually they agreed to marry, initially intending to live in Japan. However with Bernard's son David Leach leaving the Leach Pottery to establish his own studio they returned to England.
- Black Pot
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Janet Leach. 15.5cm tall, impressed JL monogram and Leach mark - SOLD
- Brown Pot
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Description:
Janet Leach. 16cm tall, impressed JL monogram and Leach mark
- Footed Bowl
- Description: Grogged, textured body with splash decoration. 8.25 inches diameter x 7 inches tall. Impressed personal seal & Leach pottery mark to base
- Grey Pot
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Janet Leach. 14cm tall, impressed JL monogram and Leach mark - SOLD
- Grogged Splash Vase
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Textured pale body with tenmoku. 10 inches tall x 4.75 inches diameter. Impressed personal & Leach pottery marks - SOLD
- Large Lugged Vessel
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Janet Leach
Large Lugged Vessel, 1982, H 32 x W 32 cm, with hand-painted personal and Leach marks. Provenance New Craftsman Gallery, St Ives.
- Large Vase
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Janet Leach
Large Vase, H 32 x W 36 cm, with impressed personal and Leach marks - SOLD
- Lidded Pot
- Description: Black body with splashed dec. 4.25 inches tall. Impressed personal & Leach pottery marks to base
- Lidded Pot
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Description:
Black body with black \'splash\' dec.4.5 inches tall x 5 inches dia. Impressed marks to base - SOLD
- Moon Flask
- Description: 7 inches in diameter x 7.5 inches tall. Hakeme with ochre drip glaze. Impressed personal and Leach pottery marks (glaze running into same, although piece provenanced)
- Pedestal Bowl
- Description: Black. 10.5 inches diameter x 4 inches tall. Impressed Leach & personal marks
- Pinched Vase
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6 inches tall. Impressed personal & Leach pottery marks - SOLD
- Platter
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Janet Leach
Platter, H 9 cm x W 32 cm, with impressed personal monogram and Leach mark - SOLD
- Shallow Bowl
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Description:
5.5 inches in diamater x 2.25 inches tall. Impressed personal seal & Leach pottery marks to base - SOLD
- Stoneware Lugged Vase
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Description:
Janet Leach
Stoneware Lugged Vase, H 26 cm x W 19 cm, with impressed personal monogram and Leach mark - SOLD
- Tripple Gourd Vase
- Description: Stoneware. 13.75 inches tall. Impressed personal & Leach pottery marks
- Twin Handled Vase
- Description: 4.5 inches tall x 5.5 inches in diameter. Impressed personal & Leach pottery marks
- Vase
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Description:
Janet Leach
Vase, H 14 cm x W 19 cm, with impressed personal monogram and Leach mark -SOLD