Description:

Dame Lucie Rie (b. 1902, d. 1995) Austrian-born British ceramist. Stylish Pitcher in black glazed ceramics. Own workshop, approx. 1970.
Measures: 22 x 21 cm.
Signed: LR in monogram.
In excellent condition.
Lucy Rie’s works, usually consisting of hand-thrown pots, bottles, and bowl forms, are noteworthy for their Modernist forms and her use of bright colors. She studied pottery at the Vienna Kunstgewerbeschule, a school of arts and crafts. In 1937, she won a silver medal at the Paris International Exhibition and by the following year, Rie moved to London to flee Nazi Austria.