Vase with wide mouth
Potter: Rie, Lucie
Buff stoneware, thrown, and glazed. The vase has a bulbous body narrowing to a narrow foot, a long tapering, flattened neck flaring out at the top into a wide undulating, dish-like rim. The lower body is covered with a mottled sage-green, brown and buff glaze. The inside of the mouth is glazed with a grey-white and borwon glaze in a spiral pattern whcih continues down the neck. The glaze on the upper parts has crazed.
History note: Charles Handley-Read Collection; bought from Thomas Stainton, the executor of the Handley-Read Estate
Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Height: 36.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1972) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
20th Century, third quarter#
Elizabeth II
Production date:
circa
AD 1971
Lucie Rie DBE (1902-1995) was Britain’s most prominent modernist potter. She studied ceramics at the Vienna Kunstgewerbeschule and won a silver medal at the Paris International Exhibition before fleeing to London in 1938. During the war years she developed a business making tableware and press-moulded buttons at Albion Mews, near Hyde Park. Hans Coper, also an émigré joined her from 1946-1958 and later they exhibited together and both taught at Camberwell and the Royal College of Art. Inspired by Scandinavian modernism, Rie worked in stoneware and porcelain to make elegant vessel forms with gentle ribbed patterns, textured glazes or pitted surfaces. Her colours are generally pale and muted, though some later porcelain is startlingly bright. Rie’s studio has been reconstructed at the V & A Museum.
Lower Body
Diameter 16 cm
Rim
Width 19 cm
Throwing
: Stoneware, thrown, and glazed
Glazing
Inscription present: in rectangular seal
Accession number: C.32-1972
Primary reference Number: 81913
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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