‡ Bernard Leach CBE (1887-1979) and Dinah...

‡ Bernard Leach CBE (1887-1979) and Dinah Batterham (1930-2007)

a Leach Pottery plate, 1958, painted to the well with a figure planting rice, painted in shades of cobalt, with thin iron band to rim, and another smaller painted with a flower motif,

impressed BL mark, smaller plate smashed and re-stuck,

20cm. diam. (2)

Provenance

Given as a wedding present to Richard & Dinah Batterham by Bernard Leach.

The Estate of Richard Batterham.

Literature

Tony Birks & Cornelia Wingfield Digby, Bernard Leach, Hamada & Their Circle, From the Wingfield Digby Collection, Phaidon, page 45 figure 37 for a comparable plate painted with two fish.