Live Auction 7316The Japanese Aesthetic
Bernard Leach (1887-1979)
Lot 80

Bernard Leach (1887-1979)

CIRCA 1927-30

Closed7 November 2012

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GBP 5,000

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Bernard Leach (1887-1979)
Circa 1927-30
The deep conical bowl on ring foot, the interior with two fish in iron oxide surrounded by a double band over the iron-speckled porcelain ground, the exterior and rim in tenmoku, under a thin, bluish-white nuka glaze, two firing cracks to the rim which have been repaired in gold lacquer by Bernard Leach, impressed seals B.L. and St. Ives to the base
24cm. wide

Janet Leach

Specialist note

Although bowls with this decoration are rare, Leach is thought to have made around fifty tall vases decorated with fish in this style (for a fish ink drawing see lot 108). He recorded that each fish was "made by one brush stroke, which is then combed". For an example of a vase in the Victoria and Albert Museum see Bernard Leach, The Art of Bernard Leach, (London, 1978), no.49.