Porcelain, bright yellow glaze, impressed LR seal
H 10.1cm, D 19.9cm
Provenance: Private Collection, London
Acquired directly from the artist, circa 1974
Condition: Perfect condition with no damage or restoration
Available for sale: £38,000
About the artist
Lucie Rie was one of the most important potters of the post-war period. Born in Vienna, she studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule under Michael Powolney and Joseph Hoffmann before she emigrated to England in 1938 and established a studio at Albion Mews in London. In the 1940s Rie worked together with Hans Coper making tableware and a strong and enduring friendship grew between the two potters. Rie went on to develop a highly individual style based on the aesthetics of the ‘Modernist’ movement. Using the traditional methods of wheel-throwing her vessels were decorated with rich and vivid glazes, often used in conjunction with sets of parallel banded lines of inlay or sgraffito. Rie’s work offered an alternative and distinctly urban aesthetic to Bernard Leach’s Japanese inspired ceramic tradition.
Lucie Rie received several awards for her work and exhibited internationally with great success during her lifetime. Her small Albion Mews studio has been reconstructed in the Victoria and Albert Museum, and her works are held in numerous public collections in the UK and internationally.
Recent important exhibitions of her work include 'Lucie Rie: The Adventure of Pottery', an expansive retrospective held at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, in 2023 then touring in the UK and to Denmark.
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