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Bernard Leach
Charger with 'Tree of Life' design
circa 1924
Earthenware, galena glaze over slip trailed and carved 'Tree of Life' design, incorporating mustang, stag and hunting dog, bird feeding its young, song birds, Ursa Major and dragon motifs.
44.4 cm (17 1/2 in.) diameter
Impressed with artist's and Leach Pottery seals.
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'You can document the tree of life in different cultures at different times; but you can also document it in terms of what it meant to Leach. He had a deep grasp of the cultures that he was drawing upon, and of the place his work had in contemporary culture.' -J.D.