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MOVED BY BEAUTY: WORKS BY LUCIE RIE FROM AN IMPORTANT ASIAN COLLECTION
ARTIST
Lucie Rie
Size
12 3/4 in. (32.4 cm) high
Description
Medium
Mixed clays with manganese speckle producing an integral pitted pink, turquoise and grey spiral beneath the glaze.
Signature
Underside impressed with artist's seal.
Provenance
Mitochu Koeki Co., Tokyo
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2010
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, pp. 51, 58, 84 for similar examples
Tony Birks, Lucie Rie, Yeovil, 1994, pp. 189-190 for similar examples
Margot Coatts, ed., Lucie Rie & Hans Coper: Potters in Parallel, exh. cat., Barbican Art Gallery, London, 1997, p. 91 for a similar example