Lot Essay
For an incense burner of similar form by Bernard Leach see John Edgeler, Slipware and St Ives, The Leach Pottery 1920-1937, (Winchcombe, 2010), p.57.
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1920S
Details
Bernard Leach (1887-1979)
1920s
A stoneware bowl decorated in a greenish white glaze and underglaze blue with floral motifs and a hatched pattern, gold lacquer repair, impressed BL; and a koro [incense burner] on tripod feet decorated in a celadon glaze and underglaze blue with a stylised motif, inscribed BL to the base in underglaze blue
14.2cm. and 12.8cm. diam. respectively (2)
1920s
A stoneware bowl decorated in a greenish white glaze and underglaze blue with floral motifs and a hatched pattern, gold lacquer repair, impressed BL; and a koro [incense burner] on tripod feet decorated in a celadon glaze and underglaze blue with a stylised motif, inscribed BL to the base in underglaze blue
14.2cm. and 12.8cm. diam. respectively (2)
Provenance
Bernard Leach