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Description: | Bernard Leach made a number of dishes featuring variations on a composition, depicting a figure walking with staff, hills and a 'Tree of Life' motif. Early drawings for this design, illustrating a house under a mountain, were first made in 1918. Versions of this design incorporate the figure of a Chinese or Japanese peasant carrying a yoke in the foreground. The glaze used on the outside of this pot is called 'tenmoku'. Iron contained in the glaze gives it this rich black-brown colour. 'Tenmoku' is the Japanese word for a type of tea bowl originating in a Zen Buddhist monastery situated in the T'ien Mu (Tenmoku in Japanese) Mountains, where the tea ceremony was first practiced. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | beyond the North East craft makers ceramics other cultures contemporary craft | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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