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British potter Lucie Rie used a number of different clays over the course of her long career, sometimes using more than one kind in a single piece. Her works were usually of stoneware or porcelain. On 1stDibs, shop a collection of genuine Lucie Rie pieces from some of the world’s top art dealers.
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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...
Category
20th Century British Modern Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
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...
Category
Vintage 1950s English Modern Ceramics
Materials
Stoneware
Lucie Rie Rose Colored Bowl 1980 Signed
By Lucie Rie
Located in Munich, DE
Extraordinary stoneware bowl of the famous ceramic artist Lucie Rie.
Slightly beige-pink matte glaze with stronger pink spots, brown, partially bluish edge. Interior and exterior wa...
Category
Vintage 1980s English Mid-Century Modern Pottery
Materials
Stoneware
Lucie Rie & Hans Coper Studio Pottery Mustard Glazed Bowl
By Lucie Rie, Hans Coper
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A stunning vintage British studio pottery bowl by Lucie Rie and Hans Coper, finely thrown the outer body decorated in oatmeal glaze with a dark ...
Category
Mid-20th Century English Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Pottery