Live Auction 7316The Japanese Aesthetic
Bernard Leach (1887-1979)
Lot 78

Bernard Leach (1887-1979)

CIRCA 1970-72

Closed7 November 2012

Price Realised

GBP 2,750

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Bernard Leach (1887-1979)
Circa 1970-72
The small stoneware bowl curving inwards slightly at the rim, the interior decorated over a grey ground with a brush painting of rocks and two flying gulls in cobalt and iron oxide, the exterior is brushed just short of the foot and over the rim with streaked grey, black and brown glazes, signed BL in iron oxide to the base
12.3cm. diam.

Specialist note

The scene on the dish is of Portmeor beach in St. Ives, the view from Bernard Leach's Barnaloft studio (see Lot 70).

A tile from the Mashiko Reference Collection, similarly decorated, is illustrated in the catalogue for the exhibition Bernard Leach - Potter and Artist, (Crafts Council, 1997), no.129