William Alfred Ismay
British collector and librarian (1910ā2001) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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William Alfred Ismay[1] MBE (10 April 1910 ā 13 January 2001) was a librarian, writer and collector in Wakefield, West Yorkshire known for his significant collection of post-war studio pottery.[2] The collection called the W.A. Ismay Collection was bequeathed to the Yorkshire Museum and is one of the world's largest collections of 20th-century studio pottery.[3] It includes work by Bernard Leach, Hans Coper, Shoji Hamada, Takeshi Yasuda, David Leach Dan Arbeid and Lucie Rie.[4]