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LUCIE RIE AND HANS COPER, EXCEPTIONAL CERAMICS: SELECTIONS FROM THE ESTATE OF JANE COPER AND THE FORMER COLLECTION OF CYRIL FRANKEL
ARTIST
Lucie Rie
Size
23 x 12 x 12 cm (9 x 4 3/4 x 4 3/4 in.)
Description
PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF JANE COPER
The present lot is featured in the BBC Omnibus documentary Lucie Rie, directed by Cyril Frankel and presented by Sir David Attenborough, 1982, which coincided with Rie's 80th birthday and a major retrospective exhibition of her work at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, [00:21:01-00:21:04].
Medium
Porcelain, bright golden glaze, terracotta bands crossed with linear sgraffito and blue inlay design.
Signature
Impressed with artist's seal.
Provenance
Lucie Rie
Jane Coper, circa 1995
Literature
John Houston, ed., Lucie Rie: A Survey of her Life and Work, exh. cat., Crafts Council and The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1981, illustrated p. 62
Exhibited
‘Lucie Rie: A Survey of her Life and Work’, Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, Norwich, November 1981; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 17 February-28 March 1982, item 38