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What is Lucie Rie known for?
Lucie Rie is known for her pottery. The Austrian-British artist became famous for producing vases, bowls and pots in a sleek style influenced by Modern art of the early 20th century. You can find a collection of Lucie Rie pottery 1stDibs.
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Lucie Rie Manganeze Rim Bowl 1980
By Lucie Rie
Located in Munich, DE
Bowl with manganese rim. Circa 1980. Porcelain. White, partially stone-grey and sand-colored grading and speckled glaze. The rim of the mouth inside and outside with a wide, bronze-c...
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Vintage 1980s English Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls

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Porcelain

Dame Lucie Rie, 1950's Porcelain Footed Bowl with Manganese Glaze.
By Lucie Rie
Located in London, GB
This is a great example of a Lucie Rie iconic hand-thrown, footed bowl with manganese glaze. It is thinly potted and slightly pulled into an ovoid shape with an undulating rim. The running glaze is subtle whilst adding an individual element to the decoration of the bowl. The bowl bears the artist's monogram seal mark under. Lucie Rie was an Austrian-born British ceramics artist. Rie’s works, usually consisting of hand-thrown pots, bottles, and bowl forms, are noteworthy for their Modernist forms. Born in 1902 in Vienna, Austria, she studied pottery at the Vienna Kunstgewerbeschule, a school of arts and crafts. In 1937, she won a silver medal at the Paris International Exhibition and by the following year, Rie moved to London to flee Nazi Austria. Once settled in the British capital, she maintained a small studio and continued to produce pottery and small clay objects, including ceramic buttons and jewellery which she sold to support herself. She was later joined by Hans Coper, a young artist who soon became a partner in her studio. She taught at the Camberwell School of Art from 1960...
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Vintage 1950s English Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls

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Porcelain

Lucie Rie, Uranium Yellow Flaring Porcelain Bowl, signed
By Lucie Rie
Located in Wargrave, Berkshire
Lucie Rie (British/Austrian 1902-1995), a porcelain bowl of flaring form, uranium yellow glaze with craquelure and running manganese band to rim, impressed seal mark, 14.7cm diameter...
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20th Century British Modern Ceramics

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Porcelain

Dame Lucie Rie Scarce Festival of Britain Studio Pottery Vase
By Lucie Rie
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A scarce mid-century Studio Pottery Festival of Britain vase by renowned modernist potter Dame Lucie Rie (Austrian, 1902 – 1995) dated 1951. The bottle shaped vase stands on a round ...
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Vintage 1950s English Mid-Century Modern Vases

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Ceramic

Lucie Rie 'Austrian/British, 1902-1995' Squeezed Oatmeal Glazed Pottery Bowl
By Lucie Rie
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
Stoneware oatmeal glazed bowl with small crater and speckled inclusions with a wavy rim with a fine manganese glazed edge by Lucie Rie (Austrian/British, 1902-1995) dating from aroun...
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Vintage 1960s English Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls

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Stoneware

Lucie Rie Stoneware Jug in Manganese and White Glaze
By Lucie Rie
Located in Leicester, GB
Lucie Rie Stoneware cream jug in manganese and pitted white glaze. With impressed LR mark. c1950s. Provenance: European Ceramics, Knaresborough, 2002. Alan and Pat Firth Collection. Lucie Rie DBE (1902-95) was one of the most important figures in Twentieth Century ceramics. Born in Vienna, she originally studied at the School of Applied Arts in Vienna under Michael Powolony. Before the war she exhibited at the Paris World Fair in 1925 and 1937, at which she won a silver medal. Of Jewish descent, she fled Austria for Britain in 1938 and spent the rest of her life in London. It is difficult to underestimate the importance of her work in Britain and indeed worldwide. She brought the style of European modernism to this country and inspired a generation of potters to develop that approach. A good friend of leading British studio ceramicist Bernard Leach, she became and internationally acclaimed ceramicist with innovations in both shape and glaze. In 1948 she hired a young Hans Coper and they worked and exhibited together for many years. She also spent some time teaching at Camberwell School of Art. Her ceramic work is now regarded as some of the finest and most important of the last century, its lasting influence assured. After her death her studio was reconstructed and exhibited by the Victorian and Albert Museum. Her work is held in the most important ceramics...
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Vintage 1950s English Modern Ceramics

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Stoneware

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