‡ Dame Lucie Rie DBE (1902-1995) a fine porcelain footed bowl

‡ Dame Lucie Rie DBE (1902-1995)

a fine porcelain footed bowl, covered in a translucent apple green glaze with manganese speckles, the rim with fluxing and running bronze glaze, impressed seal mark to base, 10.5cm. high, 17.5cm. diam.

Provenance

Contemporary Ceramics, Christie's London 18th June 1990 lot 132.

Exhibited

British Studio Pottery The Collection of a Discerning Academic, Monnow Valley Arts, 26th September - 8th November 2009, catalogue number 26, illustrated on page 23 and the front cover.

20th Century British Studio Pottery from the Collection of an Oxford Graduate, Ashmolean Museum 14th April-14th August 1994, catalogue number 45.

Literature

Lucie Rie, Hans Coper and their Pupils, Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, page 30-31, catalogue number 41, for a similar bowl, also illustrated on the front cover.