Bernard Leach (1887-1979)

TOKYO, 1913

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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

Provenance

Bernard Leach

Literature

Carol Hogben, The Art of Bernard Leach, (London, 1978), pl.13
Sadahiro Suzuki, Bernard Leach no Shogai to Geijutsu [Bernard Leach's Life and Art], (Kyoto, 2006), p.242, no.10-31

Lot Essay

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

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