The Yorkshire Tea Ceremony. W.A. Ismay and his Collection of British Studio Pottery. Romaine – Gréco-Romaine Ernest Pignon-Ernest was born in

Ernest Pignon-Ernest was born in Nice in 1942

they enriched the collection of works of art that she inherited

Claude Cahun

Deep kinships brought together their plastic and theatrical works

The Yorkshire Tea Ceremony. W.A. Ismay and his Collection of British Studio Pottery. Romaine – Gréco-Romaine Ernest Pignon-Ernest was born inThis beautiful and absorbing book explores the remarkable collection of 'Professional Yorkshireman' WA Ismay MBE (1910 2001), the UK's most prolific collector of post war British studio pottery. WA Ismay amassed over 3,600 pieces by more than 500 potters between 1955 and 2001. Surrounded by his family of pots, he lived in a tiny terraced house in Wakefield, Yorkshire, and left his collection and its associated archive to the city of York upon his