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Also Known As Bernard Howell Leach
Born January 5, 1887 • Hong Kong
Died May 6, 1979 (aged 92)
Movement / Style raku ware
Subjects Of Study pottery

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Bernard Leach: vase
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Japanese side dish
Ogata Kenzan
Japanese artist
Josiah Wedgwood.
Josiah Wedgwood
English craftsman
Rie, Lucie: porcelain bowl
Dame Lucie Rie
British potter
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Ralph Wood, Sr.
English potter
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Beatrice Wood
American ceramicist
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John Astbury
English potter
François Boucher: Cupid a Captive
François Boucher
French artist
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Raoul Dufy
French painter
Marcks, Gerhard: Passage over the Styx
Gerhard Marcks
German artist
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Sonia Delaunay
Russian artist
English slipware dish, “The Pelican in Her Piety,” by Thomas Toft, c. 1670; in the British Museum
Thomas Toft
English potter
Stoneware dish with brush-painted sugarcane pattern by Hamada Shōji, after 1930; in the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Hamada Shōji
Japanese artist
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William Morris
British artist and author
Thomas Heatherwick
Thomas Heatherwick
British designer
Grayson Perry dressed as his alter ego Claire, wearing a bright red dress and red heels, stands on a pink and white carpet outside the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
Grayson Perry
British potter
Jony Ive wearing a white shirt and blue blazer, photographed outdoors in 2015 when he was Apple's chief design officer
Jony Ive
British designer and executive
Terence Conran
Terence Conran
British designer and entrepreneur
Chippendale, Thomas: drawing of a combined desk and bookcase
Thomas Chippendale
British cabinetmaker
Design for a library table by Thomas Sheraton, engraving from his book, The Cabinet-Maker, Upholsterer and General Artist's Encyclopaedia (1805)
Thomas Sheraton
English furniture designer
Design for a sofa by George Hepplewhite, engraving from his book, The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide (1788).
George Hepplewhite
British cabinetmaker