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 124 "The first daily-use pottery I was asked for was invariably a tea-set". A Potter's Outlook (1928)

Bernard Leach (1887-1979)

TOKYO, 1913

Closed15 October 2013

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GBP 2,250

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Bernard Leach (1887-1979)
Tokyo, 1913
Two earthenware cups decorated in a white glaze and painted in blue, one with a handle decorated in blue and grey glazes, signed BHL and dated 1913 in an octagonal chequered mark inside the foot-ring
5.5cm. and 5.6cm. high (2)

Bernard Leach

Specialist note

For a similar example, part of a tea set, see Oliver Watson, Bernard Leach-Potter and Artist, exhibition catalogue, (Tokyo, 1997), p.57, no.45-3

Two similar pieces can be seen in the photograph of Bernard and Muriel Leach in their house in Tokyo circa 1913, published Emmanuel Cooper, Bernard Leach Life and Work, (London, 2003), see images between p.110 and p.111