‡Dame Lucie Rie DBE (1902-1995) a tall stoneware bottle vase

‡Dame Lucie Rie DBE (1902-1995)

a tall stoneware bottle vase, on slender cylindrical foot, swollen body with cylindrical knopped tall neck, covered in a volcanic blue glaze with purple and sky blue swirls and buff patches, impressed LR seal mark, 35.5cm. high

Provenance

Purchased by the vendor from the Aldeburgh Ceramic Festival circa 1985.

The studio pottery collection of Sara Pearch

Literature

Geraldine Christy and Sara Pearch Step by Step Art School Ceramics, Chartwell Books/Hamlyn Publishing, page 11 this actual vase illustrated.

Tony Birks Lucie Rie , Alphabooks, page 190 for a comparable glaze on a vase with flaring neck, circa 1980.