Lucie Rie - Design Day Sale London Monday, April 27, 2015 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Galerie Besson, London, 1992
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    'LUCIE RIE: 90th Birthday Exhibition', Galerie Besson, London, March-May 1992

  • Literature

    Tony Birks, Lucie Rie, Yeovil, 1994, p. 160 for similar examples

  • Artist Biography

    Lucie Rie

    Austrian • 1902 - 1995

    Dame Lucie Rie studied under Michael Powolny at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna before immigrating to London in 1938. In London she started out making buttons for the fashion industry before producing austere, sparsely decorated tableware that caught the attention of modernist interior decorators. Eventually she hit her stride with the pitch-perfect footed bowls and flared vases for which she is best-known today. She worked in porcelain and stoneware, applying glaze directly to the unfired body and firing only once. She limited decoration to incised lines, subtle spirals and golden manganese lips, allowing the beauty of her thin-walled vessels to shine through. In contrast with the rustic pots of English ceramicist Bernard Leach, who is considered an heir to the Arts and Crafts movement, collectors and scholars revere Rie for creating pottery that was in dialogue with the design and architecture of European Modernism.

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Vase with flaring lip

circa 1978
Stoneware, pure white glaze.
31.6 cm (12 1/2 in.) high
Impressed with artist's seal.

Estimate
£15,000 - 20,000 

Sold for £31,250

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Design Day Sale

London Day Sale 28 April 2015 2pm