British Art Pottery - 27th November 2019
Lot 412
‡Bernard Leach CBE (1887-1979)
Estimate £300 - £500 | Hammer £600
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Description
‡Bernard Leach CBE (1887-1979), attributed
a Leach Pottery stoneware tile painted with a climbing kiln with smoking chimney, a farmer working the land in the foreground, impressed Leach Pottery seal marks to reverse, 10.2cm. square
Provenance
Mary Gibson-Horrocks,
Literature
Bernard Leach A Potter in Japan, Faber, page 107 for a pen and ink drawing by Bernard Leach of Hamada's small kiln, Mashiko, for comparison, and page 62 for illustrations of a Tamba Kiln.