‡David Leach OBE (1911-2005)

‡David Leach OBE (1911-2005)

a Leach Pottery stoneware vase made for the Dartington Exhibition, compressed ovoid form with collar rim, painted with a band of concentric circles in tenmoku, over blue, on a speckled ash glaze to the foot, sold with a copy of the Dartington 60 Years of Pottery 1933-1993 catalogue,

impressed DL and Leach pottery seal marks,

13cm. high, 18cm wide. (2)

Provenance

Private collection

Literature

Dartington 60 Years of Pottery 1933-1993, page 28 for a comparable example illustrated, made in the 1950s for the Elmhirst collection). This painted design is taken from a plate in Bernard Leach's collection, an 18th or 19th century Seto ware dish with a horse eye or Una No Me abstract design.