‡ Bernard Leach CBE

‡ Bernard Leach CBE, (1887-1979)

a Leach Pottery stoneware and leather necklace, comprising twenty-one rounded, rectangular stones with painted stripe design, large stone incised BL and dated 11 50 for 1950, 43cm. long

Provenance

Made for Laurie Cookes, Bernard Leach's second wife, whom he married in 1944.

Decorative Arts, 3rd May 1995, Sotheby's London, lot 481.

Arts and Crafts 22nd June 2011 Woolley and Wallis Auctioneer's, lot 281.

Private collection.