Bernard Leach
Small Covered Pot and Miniature Pagoda Pot
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June 27, 10:23 AM GMT
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400 - 600 GBP
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Bernard Leach
1887 - 1979
Small Covered Pot and Miniature Pagoda Pot
each impressed with Artist's seal, the largest also impressed with St. Ives pottery seal (to the underside)
porcelain, the smallest with blue glaze, decorated with brown and orange spiral on dome and surrounded by six white and brown fish motifs; the larger with red-brown glaze, sgraffito design base on traditional South American sun symbols bordered with vertical linear decoration and a dome lid
height (largest): 8cm.; 3¼in.; diameter: 7.5cm.; 3in.
height (smallest): 4.5cm.; 1¾in.; diameter: 5cm.; 2in.
Executed circa 1960.
Smaller pot: Sale, Bonhams Knightsbridge, 20 April 1994, lot 51, where acquired by the late owner
Larger pot: Possibly, Sale, Mallams Oxford, 6 December 1995, lot 216, where acquired by the late owner
Carol Hogben (ed.), exh. cat., The Art of Bernard Leach, London 1978, no. 116, for a similar example
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