Live Auction 9555Asobi: Ingenious Creativity Japanese Works of Art from Antiquity to Contemporary And Ceramics from the Collection of Bernard Leach
Bernard Leach (1887-1979)
Lot 233 THE PROPERTY OF AN ENGLISH GENTLEMAN

Bernard Leach (1887-1979)

1960S

Closed15 October 2013

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GBP 7,500

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Bernard Leach (1887-1979)
1960s
A stoneware charger decorated in a tenmoku glaze and wax resist with a pilgrim, the wide tapered rim unglazed, inscribed BL inside the foot-ring and St Ives seal to the reverse
32cm. diam.

Specialist note

For a similar example see Bernard Leach, Nihon mingeikan shozo banado richi sakuhinshu, (Tokyo, 2012), p.122, Bernard Leach: Potter and Artist (introduction by Oliver Watson), (Crafts Council, London, 1997), p.140 and An Exhibition of the Art of Bernard Leach (Ohara Museum of Art, 15th May - 1st June, 1980), (Osaka, 1980), p. 83, pl. 106