Vase with Flaring Lip, circa 1981

Details

LUCIE RIE (1902-1995)
Vase with Flaring Lip, circa 1981
stoneware with white glaze, green radiating sgraffito inlay, and gold lip and running bands
10 ¾ in. (27.3 cm) high, 5 ¾ in. (14.6 cm) diameter
impressed with artist's seal

Provenance

Crafts Council Shop, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1982
Harley Carpenter & Geof Walker, The Berkeley Collection, London
Phillips de Pury & Company, London, 27 September 2011, lot 49
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature

Lucie Rie: a survey of her life and work, exh. cat., Crafts Council and The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1981, p. 64, no. 41 (for a related example)
Lucie Rie and Hans Coper - Potters in Parallel, exh. cat., Barbican Art Gallery, London, 1997, pp. 92, 143. cat. 11.10 (for a related example)
C. Frankel, Modern Pots. Hans Coper, Lucie Rie & Their Contemporaries: The Lisa Sainsbury Collection, London, 2000, p. 133 (for a related example)
Lucie Rie - a retrospective, exh. cat., The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 2010, pp. 200, 327, no. 149 (for a related example)

Exhibited

London, Crafts Council Gallery, Lucie Rie, January - April 1992, no. 14.13
Vienna, MAK, Lucie Rie: Gebrannte Erde, July - September 1999, no. 136

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