Lucie Rie 1902-1995
Pink footed bowl, c.1980
porcelain with inlaid pink radiating lines, with bronzed rim and turquoise band
height: 10.5cm
diameter: 23cm
diameter: 23cm
impressed with maker's mark
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Provenance
New Craftsman Gallery, St IvesPrivate Collection
Their sale, Bonhams, London, 11th June 2025, lot 84
Offer Waterman, London, acquired from the above
Literature
Issey Miyake et.al., Issey Miyake Meets Lucie Rie, Sogetsu Gallery, Tokyo, 1989, with tour to Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, exh. cat., illustrated p.36 (a closely comparable work);Connoisseur Magazine, November 1989, illustrated, p.148-9 (a closely comparable work);
Cyril Frankel et.al., Lucie Rie, Hans Coper and their Pupils, exh. cat., Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, 1990, illustrated p.25 (a closely comparable work);Tony Birks, Lucie Rie, Marston House, Yeovil, 1999, p.185 (a closely comparable work):
Emmanuel Cooper (ed), Lucie Rie, The Life and Work of Lucie Rie, Ceramic Review Publication, London, 2002, illustrated on the front cover and p.3 (a closely comparable work).
Kenji Kaneko et.al., Lucie Rie, A Retrospective, The National Art Centre, Tokyo, 2010, illustrated p.212 (a closely comparable work);
Kenji Kaneko et.al., Lucie Rie, Ibaraki Ceramic Art Museum, 2015, illustrated p.3 (a closely comparable work, detail);
Emmanuel Cooper, Lucie Rie, Modernist Potter, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2012, illustrated pl.98 (a closely comparable work);Isabella Smith, Lucie Rie, Eiderdown Books, London, 2022, illustrated on the front cover (a closely comparable work).
A closely comparable work is held in the collection of the Gardiner Museum, Toronto (object number G99.6.59).