1950S

Name: Bernard Leach (1887-1979)
Brand: 1950S
Price: 1900.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised GBP 2,375

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GBP 1,000 - GBP 1,500

Closed: 28 Oct 2014

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Bernard Leach (1887-1979)

1950S

Price Realised GBP 2,375

Closed: 28 Oct 2014

Price Realised GBP 2,375

Closed: 28 Oct 2014

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Bernard Leach (1887-1979)
1950s
A stoneware vase decorated in a speckled green and brown glaze to approximately a third of the way from the foot, the shoulder with dense incised concentric lines and four abstract incised patterns around the body, BL, St Ives and ENGLAND seals to the edge of the foot
25cm. high

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Lot Essay

Bernard Leach (1887 – 1979) was born in Hong Kong, and later studied at the London School of Art in Kensington, where he was taught by Sir Frank Brangwyn. In 1911, Leach attended a raku party in Japan with his friend, the artist Tomimoto Kenkichi. The British artist was captivated by ceramics, and in 1920, he and his friend and colleague, the ceramicist Hamada Shoji, returned to England to start a pottery studio and workshop in St. Ives, which was frequented by Michael Cardew, Katherine Pleydell-Bouverie, Lucie Rie, and other influential ceramicists.

In 1961, The Arts Council of Britain honored Leach in a retrospective exhibition titled, 'Fifty Years a Potter'. Following a major retrospective exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum and the publication of his illustrated memoirs, entitled, 'Beyond East and West', Leach passed away in 1979 at 72 years of age, leaving an indelible imprint on the world of ceramics.

For a very similar vase see Carol Hogben (ed.), , (London, 1978), cat. 94