A similar vase with flaring lip on the poster for the 1997 exhibition “Potters in Parallel: Lucie Rie Hans Coper” at the Barbican Centre, London.
Literature
John Houston, ed., Lucie Rie: A Survey of her Life and Work, exh. cat., Crafts Council and The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1981, pp. 49, 62, 84 for similar examples
Tony Birks, Lucie Rie, Yeovil, 1994, p. 147 for similar examples
Margot Coatts, ed., Lucie Rie & Hans Coper: Potters in Parallel, exh. cat., Barbican Art Gallery, London, 1997, p. 92 for a similar exampleArtist 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 1980
Porcelain, golden manganese glaze with terracotta bands crossed with sgraffito and inlaid blue lines to shoulder, neck, and rim.
9 1/8 in. (23.2 cm) high
Underside impressed with artist's seal.
Estimate
$15,000 - 20,000
Sold for $60,960
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Moved by Beauty: Works by Lucie Rie from an Important Asian Collection
New York Auction 11 December 2024
