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Bernard
Leach (1887-1979) was born in Hong Kong and spent over a third of
his life living in the East. He first encountered pottery while in
Japan in 1911, when attending a dinner party he was asked to decorate
a teabowl. The bowl was a raku bowl and it was soon returned to him
fired and still warm , it was this encounter that was to set the course
of his life.
Leach's pots at their best are truly wonderful, his understanding
of form, balance and pattern is without equal. A recurring theme of
his decoration is nature, birds, perhaps standing for freedom and
fauna, wild grasses and flowers all beautifully represented and glowing
with fire of life. A favourite pattern the Tree of Life perhaps best
encapsulates Leach's spiritual side as does his pilgrim motif, which
may represent Leach himself alone but not lonely, traveling life's
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Fruit
Bowl:
This is a large and impressive bowl by
Bernard Leach, stoneware and glazed in a speckled glaze decorated
with four wonderful fish one of the most characteristic and sort
after motifs of Bernard Leach's art. Impressed BL and SI
Size:
h. 11.5cms Ø. 27.0.cms Ref: OC/AHBL020
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on this image for a larger view
WITH
DRAWN FROM SALE
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Loop
Handled Teapot:
A good tenmoku standard-ware teapot from
the Leach Pottery. Impressed SI for the Leach Pottery St.Ives.
Size:
h.14.0cms Ø.14.0cms
Ref: OC/AH0223
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on this image for a larger view
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Octagonal
Brush Pot.
Porcelain brush pot glazed in a celadon
glaze alternative facets decorated with cross hatching. Slight firing
split to rim. Impressed BL and SI. A wonderful quiet and very Oriental
piece.
Size:
h.10.0cms Ø.9.5cms
Ref: OC/AHBL3
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Shallow
Dish.
Shallow stoneware dish, glazed to the
outer in a rich brown iron glaze. Decorated by Bernard Leach with
flowers and leaves,, this pattern is often seen on tiles made at
the Leach Pottery. Impressed SI.
Size:
h.4.5cms Ø.12.0cms
Ref: OC/AHBL4
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Yunomi:
A wonderful quality yunomi from the Leach
Pottery. This bowl with it's full curved form is typical of Bernard's
ideal yunomi form. This example is glazed in kaki or teadust glaze.
The provenance is that it was selected personally by Bernard Leach
with the assurance that he had made it himself. There is an original
label still affixed to the bowl which reads Kaki Teabowl. Impressed
only with SI to the inside of the foot.
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for a larger view
Size:
h. 31/2in (9.0cm)
Ref: OC/BL5
Price: £295
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