Lucie Rie
circa 1980
Stoneware, pitted green and brown glaze with running golden manganese rim.
4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm) high, 8 3/8 in. (21.2 cm) diameter
Underside impressed with artist’s seal.

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. 63, 87 for similar examples
Yoshiaki Inui, Issey Miyake Meets Lucie Rie, exh. cat., Sogetsu Gallery, Tokyo, 1989, pp. 48, 113 for a similar example
Cyril Frankel, Modern Pots: Hans Coper, Lucie Rie and their contemporaries, Ceramics from the Lisa Sainsbury Collection, exh. cat., Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 2005, pp. 112-13 for a similar example

Private collection, United Kingdom
Phillips, London, "Design," September 28, 2010, lot 35Acquired from the above by the present owner