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  • Provenance

    Cyril Frankel
    Private collection

  • Literature

    Lucie Rie: A Retrospective, exh. cat., The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 2010, p. 126 for a similar example
    Emmanuel Cooper, Lucie Rie: Modernist Potter, New Haven and London, 2012, pl. 41 for similar examples
    Andrew Nairne and Eliza Spindel, eds., Lucie Rie: The Adventure of Pottery, exh. cat., Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, 2023, n.p. 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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PROPERTY FORMERLY IN THE COLLECTION OF CYRIL FRANKEL

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Tea and coffee set

circa 1960
Stoneware, manganese and white glazes.
Each teacup and saucer: 7.2 x 14 x 14 cm (2 7/8 x 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.)
Each coffee cup and saucer: 7.1 x 14 x 14 cm (2 3/4 x 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.)
Each side plate: 2.8 cm (1 1/8 in.) high, 15.9 cm (6 1/4 in.) diameter
Lidded coffee pot: 22.2 x 22.7 x 14 cm (8 3/4 x 8 7/8 x 5 1/2 in.)
Milk jug: 11.1 x 15.6 x 9.2 cm (4 3/8 x 6 1/8 x 3 5/8 in.)
Cream jug: 9.2 x 7.8 x 8.2 cm (3 5/8 x 3 1/8 x 3 1/4 in.)
Sugar bowl: 8.2 cm (3 1/4 in.) high, 10.5 cm (4 1/8 in.) diameter

Comprising six coffee cups and saucers, four teacups and saucers, six side plates, one lidded coffee pot, one milk jug, one cream jug and one sugar bowl (30). Underside of each impressed with artist's seal.

Estimate
£10,000 - 15,000 ‡♠

Sold for £15,875

Contact Specialist

Antonia King
Head of Sale, Design
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Design

London Auction 2 May 2024