British Art Pottery - 25th November 2015

Lot 368

‡ Dame Lucie Rie DBE (1902-1995) a stoneware bottle vase with ovoid body and flaring rim

Estimate £10,000 - £15,000 | Hammer £13000

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Description

‡ Dame Lucie Rie DBE (1902-1995)

a stoneware bottle vase with ovoid body and flaring rim, covered to the foot with a pitted white glaze, the top rim with running bronze band impressed seal mark, 23cm. high

Provenance

Purchased for the vendor from Liberty & Co in the early 1980s.

Literature

John Houston & David Cripps, Lucie Rie, Crafts Council, page 77 figure 123 for a comparable vase.