When the potter Lucie Rie arrived in London in 1938, a Jewish refugee from Nazi-occupied Austria, Bernard Leach dismissed her sleekly elegant earthenware pots. For much of the 20th century, Leach was the arbiter of aesthetic quality in pottery, and he described them as “too thickly glazed, thinly potted, too much like stoneware … with no humanity.” After early years of struggling to adapt to the British artistic context – and handmaking buttons to make ends meet during the war – by the late 1960

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