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Bernard Leach
Description
- Bernard Leach
- 'Pilgrim' Dish
- stamped with potter's seal and Leach Pottery seal
- stoneware with orange and brown iron glaze and stencilled design
- diameter: 31.5cm.; 12¼in.
- Executed circa 1965.
Provenance
Literature
Edmund de Waal, Bernard Leach, Tate Publishing, London, 1998, illustrated p.65 (a similar example).
Condition
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Catalogue Note
This important ‘Pilgrim’ dish, executed whilst the Artist was well into his seventies, and from a small and important body of work, shows the clarity of style that he had honed and developed throughout the course of his career – the Pilgrim forming a stylised and important motif within his work, marking the marriage between Eastern and Western ideas. This important motif also represented a self-portrait of the artist, who continued to visit Japan until his retirement in the early 1970s as his eyesight deteriorated. Leach continued the bridge the gap between these two nations and cultures, through his constant exploration of intellectual and aesthetic diversity, and the dynamism that this exploration offered, as seen so excellently in the present work.