‡Bernard Leach CBE (1887-1979)

‡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.