Norah Braden studied painting before arriving at the St. Ives Pottery in 1925. The principal of the RCA, William Rothenstein, told Leach "I am sending you a genius" and Leach later described her as "the most sensitive" of his pupils.

In 1928 Braden joined Pleydell-Bouverie at Coleshill in Berkshire, leaving in 1936. She made very few pots after this date. The shape of this pot is East Asian in inspiration and demonstrates Braden's natural instinct for decorating three dimensional form.

The Leach Pottery, The Berkeley Galleries, June 1946.