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Lucie Rie Byzantine-style vase ca. 1976 Porcelain, golden manganese glaze with sgraffito inside and out. 9 3/8 in. (23.8 cm.) high Impressed with artist’s seal.
Provenance Lucie Rie / Hans Coper – Masterworks, Phillips London, June 20, 2000, Lot 118 Exhibited “Lucie Rie” Retrospective, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich and The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1981 Literature Lucie Rie exh. cat., Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts and The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1981, catalogue no. 25 and illustrated p. 49; Tony Birks, Lucie Rie London, 1994, illustrated pp. 195 and 203 Catalogue Essay This pot was the first example of this late design. Lucie Rie herself was delighted to have created a "new form" and made only a few others. Lucie Rie retained this ‘prototype’ pot for the remainder of her working life. Read More Artist Bio 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. View More Works