EDO PERIOD (EARLY 19TH CENTURY)

Details

A Seto Dish
Edo period (early 19th century)
Decorated in a cream crackled glaze and iron oxide with a design known as 'horse eye', six spur marks to the center and the foot
27.2cm. diam.

Provenance

Bernard Leach
The dish is accompanied by a letter signed by Janet Leach stating that this dish came from the reference collection of Bernard Leach.

Lot Essay

The 'Horse-eye' dish started to be produced in late Edo period as daily tableware. Its simplicity and Yo no bi [beauty among function] attracted connoissieurs of the Mingei movement including Yanagi Soetsu and yielded a number of collectors.

Seto dishes were collected and valued by Leach and Hamada with a number entering their reference collections. See John Edgeler, Slipware and St Ives: The Leach Pottery 1920-1937 (Winchcombe, 2010), p.15

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