Bernard Leach - The Art of Fire: Selections from the Dr John P. Driscoll Collection London Wednesday, November 10, 2021 | Phillips

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  • Exhibited

    'Things of Beauty Growing: British Studio Pottery', Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, 14 September-3 December 2017 and The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 20 March-18 June 2018

  • Literature

    Decorative Art 1937: Year Book of the 'Studio', London, 1937, illustrated p. 112
    Bernard Leach, A Potter's Book, London, 1940, illustrated p. 116, pl. 61
    Glenn Adamson, Martina Droth and Simon Olding, eds., Things of Beauty Growing: British Studio Pottery, exh. cat., Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven and The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 2017, illustrated p. 245

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Bowl with chrysanthemum design

1937
Stoneware, layered tenmoku over white glazes with the design carved through.
12.5 cm (4 7/8 in.) high, 25.8 cm (10 1/8 in.) diameter
Impressed with artist's seal.

Estimate
£3,000 - 4,000 ‡♠

Sold for £12,600

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The Art of Fire: Selections from the Dr John P. Driscoll Collection

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