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 137

Bernard Leach (1887-1979)

1950S

Closed15 October 2013

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GBP 6,875

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Bernard Leach (1887-1979)
1950s
A stoneware pilgrim bottle-vase decorated in tenmoku and kaki glaze with incised willow tree designs to the front and reverse, thrown in sections and assembled, and with a lacquer repair done by Bernard Leach, impressed BL and St Ives seals inside the foot-ring
37cm. high

Bernard Leach

Specialist note

For a similar example in the Victoria and Albert Museum see Carol Hogben (ed.), The Art of Bernard Leach, (London, 1978), no.87 and for another example see An Exhibition of the Art of Bernard Leach (Ohara Museum of Art, 15th May - 1st June, 1980), (Osaka, 1980), p. 93, pl. 87

The shape is derived from the flattened bottles carried by pilgrims.