ST IVES, CIRCA 1920

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Bernard Leach (1887 - 1971)
St Ives, circa 1920
A Raku earthenware drug jar decorated in a crackled cream glaze, cobalt and various coloured pigments with grapes and vine, signed B.L. and an impressed St Ives seal to the base
6.5cm. high

Lot Essay

For a similar example in the University of Wales, Aberysthwyth, see Edmund de Waal, Bernard Leach (St Ives Artist series), (Hong Kong, 1998), p.28

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