 I like a pot to be a pot, a vessel with a hole in it, made for a purpose".In a letter to Bernard Leach written 29 June 1930, Pleydell-Bouverie said "I want my pots to make people think, not of the Chinese, but of things like pebbles and shells and birds' eggs and the stones over which moss grows.Flowers stand out of them more pleasantly, so it seems to me.