Important 20th Century Design 
3 December 2006
Important 20th Century Design 
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Bernard Leach

square bottle

USA, c. 1955
glazed slab-built earthenware with incised decoration 8 h × 5½ w × 3¾ d in (20 × 14 × 10 cm)
estimate: $3,000–4,000
result: $3,900
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Signed with impressed artist's cipher and St. Ides mark to underside.
provenance: Gift of the artist Cecil Given Strawn Acquired from the above by the current owner
literature: Bernard Leach, Hamada & their Circle, Birks and Wingfield Digby, pg. 51 illustrates a similar form The Art of Bernard Leach, Hogben, ppg. 6, 92, 93 for examples of the artist's markings and similar forms

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