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Materials:

earthenware body decorated in blue, green, yellow and orange metallic oxides on a white crackled tin-glazed ground

Measurements:

8.15 in. (20.70 cm.) (height)

Description:

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Markings:

signed BHL within a geometric cartouche and dated 1912

Exhibited:

The Art of Bernard Leach, The Victoria and Albert Museum, 1977 (a major retrospective exhibition in honour of the artist's ninetieth birthday).

Literature:

Carol Hogben (ed.), The Art of Bernard Leach, (London, 1978), p.13 Sadahiro Suzuki, Bernard Leach no Shogai to Geijutsu [Bernard Leach's Life and Art], (Kyoto, 2006), p.277, no.11-1. For a photograph of this piece on view at the Beaux Arts Gallery in 1931 see Edmund de Waal, Bernard Leach (St. Ives Artists), (London, 1998), p.37, no.31.

Provenance:

Bernard Leach.