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  • Dame Lucie Rie, 1988 © Tony Evans/Timelapse Library Ltd./Getty Images

     

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    • Provenance

      Lucie Rie
      Cyril Frankel, acquired from the above, after 1989
      Private collection

    • Exhibited

      ‘Lucie Rie: A Survey of her Life and Work’, Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, Norwich, November 1981; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 17 February-28 March 1982, item 27
      ‘Issey Miyake meets Lucie Rie’, Sogetsu Gallery, Tokyo, 10 May–7 June; The Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, 27 June–30 July 1989, cat. 61
      ‘Lucie Rie & Hans Coper: Potters in Parallel’, Barbican Art Gallery, London, 20 February–26 May 1997, cat. 11.5

    • 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, illustrated p. 51
      Yoshiaki Inui, Issey Miyake Meets Lucie Rie, exh. cat., Sogetsu Gallery, Tokyo, 1989, illustrated plate 45
      Thomas Hoving, 'Serene Genius', Connoisseur Magazine, November 1989, illustrated p. 146
      Margot Coatts, ed., Lucie Rie & Hans Coper: Potters in Parallel, exh. cat., Barbican Art Gallery, London, 1997, illustrated p. 91

    • Catalogue Essay

      In 1987, a set of four commemorative stamps was issued by Royal Mail to mark the centenary of the birth of Bernard Leach, regarded as the father-figure of the Studio Ceramics movement in Britain and to celebrate British Studio Pottery. The set also included a work by Hans Coper, Elizabeth Fritsch and Bernard Leach and the present Vase with flaring lip by Lucie Rie.

    • 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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Vase with flaring lip

1979
Mixed clays producing an integral pink, turquoise and beige spiral beneath the glaze.
35 x 15.5 x 14.5 cm (13 3/4 x 6 1/8 x 5 3/4 in.)
Impressed with artist's seal.

Full Cataloguing

Estimate
£30,000 - 50,000 ‡♠

Sold for £165,100

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Lucie Rie and Hans Coper, Exceptional Ceramics: Selections from the Estate of Jane Coper and the former Collection of Cyril Frankel

London Auction 1 November 2023