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 126

Bernard Leach (1887-1979)

TOKYO, 1913

Closed15 October 2013

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GBP 11,250

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Bernard Leach (1887-1979)
Tokyo, 1913
A rare early Raku vase, with earthenware body, decorated in blue and red glaze on a crackled cream ground incised with stylised vine-leaf and grape motifs, incised BL to the bottom of the body
13.8cm. high

Bernard Leach

Specialist note

For similar examples see An Exhibition of the Art of Bernard Leach (Ohara Museum of Art, 15th May - 1st June, 1980), (Osaka, 1980), p.52, pl. 8; Oliver Watson, Bernard Leach-Potter and Artist, exhibition catalogue, (Tokyo, 1997), p.59, no.47 and Edmund de Waal, Bernard Leach, (St Ives Artists series), (Hong Kong, 1998), p.17, no.9