This was found for me by someone who attended an auction of the remaining Leeds stock almost 10 years ago. It has the remnants of some grease pencil writing on it that I've never removed, I guess I hoped I could figure out what it originally said, but seems pointless now.This piece is unbelievably rare, it may be unique, I have never seen nor heard of another. And it is huge compared to its more common sisters.
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Interesting, I used to see other Leeds items and thought that they were kind of shoddily painted, but most of these "Alice" examples look quite nice.
Yeah, they definitely improved as the years went by. The early stuff is almost all overglaze and tends to wear off really easily. You see that especially with the shakers and cookies jars, even the Alice Leeds cookie jar (not posted yet) suffers from that.
Great piece. I did not know that Leeds made ceramics that big!
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