Atsuya Hamada (1932-1986) Shoji Hamada (1894-1978)

1950S

Details

Atsuya Hamada (1932-1986)
Shoji Hamada (1894-1978)
1950s
Two stoneware standard ware porringers, each decorated in pale grey slip with abstract motifs in iron oxide and a blueish-grey glaze, each with impressed seal ENGLAND; and a stoneware saucer by Shoji Hamada decorated in a kaki glaze
11.2cm. diam. (the bowls) and 15.5cm. diam. (the saucer) (3)

Provenance

Bernard Leach

Lot Essay

For similar examples see Oliver Watson, Bernard Leach-Potter and Artist, exhibition catalogue, (Tokyo, 1997), p.113, no.117 and for an example by Bernard Leach in the Victoria and Albert Museum see https://collections.vam.ac.uk museum number CIRC.174-1950.

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