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Lucie Rie Early "Flask" bottle circa 1955 Porcelain, manganese and matte blue glazes, unglazed bands and sgraffito. 9 1/2 x 3 1/8 x 1 7/8 in. (24 x 8 x 4.8 cm) Impressed with artist’s seal and original Lucie Rie Pottery sticker.
Provenance Christie's, London, “British Decorative Arts from 1880 to the Present Day,” July 8, 1986, lot 444 Literature Tony Birks, Lucie Rie Yeovil, 2004, p. 148 Tony Birks, Lucie Rie Paris, 2008, pp. 54, 206 for similar examples Lucie Rie – A Retrospective, exh. cat., The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 2010, p. 17, fig. 5 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