Bernard Leach (1887-1979)
1920s
A stoneware bowl decorated in a celadon glaze, underglaze blue and iron oxide, with a pagoda design, circular BL and St Ives seals inside of the foot-ring, circa 1927; and an earthenware bowl decorated in a cracked celadon glaze with underglaze blue and red, with stylised Chinese-style motifs, BL mark just above the foot ring
22cm. and 20.5cm. diam. (2)
Provenance
Bernard Leach
Lot Essay
For a similar example of the first in the Victoria and Albert Museum, see https://collections.vam.ac.uk museum no. C.410-1934
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Asobi: Ingenious Creativity Japanese Works of Art from Antiquity to Contemporary And Ceramics from the Collection of Bernard Leach