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Pleydell-Bouverie, Katherine
(b Coleshill, Berks, 7 June 1895; d Kilmington, Dorset, 1985). English potter. She was from a distinguished English family and was the great-great-granddaughter of JACOB PLEYDELL-BOUVERIE, 2nd Earl of Radnor. She studied ceramics at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, London, under Dora Billington. In 1923 she met the celebrated potter Bernard Leach, who accepted her as a pupil in his workshop at St Ives, Cornwall. There she gained a specialized knowledge of stoneware pottery, which became a lasting interest. In 1925, with the Japanese potter Tsuronoske Matsubayashi and Ada Mason, a student friend, she set up her first kiln and studio at her home in Coleshill, Berks. There she experimented firing with English wood-ash glazes in stoneware, using five different clays from the estate, as well as china and ball clay from Devon and Cornwall. From 1928 to 1936 she worked in partnership with the potter Norah Braden, to increasing recognition. With a wide range of vegetable dyes she extended the quality and vitality of stoneware effects in varied tones of glazed and matt surfaces. Pleydell-Bouverie established her final pottery at the Maltings, Kilmington, Dorset, where she continued a productive output of domestic ware and experimental pieces, using an oil-fired, then electric, kiln built by Norah Braden.
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