Private collection, London, acquired directly from the artist, 1976 Phillips, London, "Design," September 27, 2011, lot 45 Acquired from the above by the present owner

Yoshiaki Inui, Issey Miyake Meets Lucie Rie, exh. cat., Sogetsu Gallery, Tokyo, 1989, illustrated pp. 62, 103 John Stewart Johnson, Lucie Rie/Hans Coper: Masterworks by Two British Potters, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1994, illustrated p. 14

"Issey Miyake Meets Lucie Rie," Sogetsu Gallery, Tokyo, May 10-June 7, 1989; The Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, June 27-July 30, 1989 "Lucie Rie, Hans Coper, and their pupils: a selection of contemporary ceramics illustrating their influence," Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, October 2-December 16, 1990; The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, January 22-April 1, 1991 "Lucie Rie," Crafts Council, London, January 30-April 5, 1992 "Lucie Rie/Hans Coper," The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, November 15, 1994-May 21, 1995 "Lucie Rie Gebrannte Erde," Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, July 14-September 12, 1999 "Gwen John & Lucie Rie," Olympia Fine Art and Antiques Fair, London, February 22-February 27, 2001 "Ceramic Modernism, Hans Coper, Lucie Rie and their legacy," Gardiner Museum, Toronto, May 25-September 2, 2002 "Hans Coper Retrospective: Innovation in 20th-Century Ceramics," The Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo, September 12-November 29, 2009