- Wikidata identifier:
- Q5180564
- Instance of:
- independent museum
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum
- Accreditation number:
- 930
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q5180564/
Collection-level records:
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Collection overview (Cornucopia)
Decorative/Applied Art
The group of ceramics includes work by influential figures such as Lucie Rie and Hans Coper. Bernard Leach gave the Centre nearly one hundred of his pots, together with pieces he had collected in Japan, Korea and China (which influenced his work). There is also calligraphy by Edward Johnston and Irene Wellington and wood furniture by Ernest Gimson and Sidney Barnsley.
Costume/Textiles
Woven and printed textiles by Ethel Mairet, Phyllis Barron and Dorothy Larcher.
Archives
Reference books include makers’ diaries, documents, photographs and craftspersons’ working notes. Bernard Leach bequeathed all his papers to the collection (including diaries that documented his time in Japan).
Source: Cornucopia
Date: Not known, but before 2015
Licence: CC BY-NC