Last month we reported on a vessel by Magdalene Odundo, which made out like gangbusters at auction by selling for €195,000 ($219,207).
Last week a work by UK designer Dame Lucie Rie also made the news. Some of her work was up for auction through Phillips at their Design show in London on October 1st. The auction house reported that her Footed Bowl sold for £68,500 ($103,435, €92,475), a personal record for Rie’s work. The bowl more than doubled its estimate of £20,000 – 30,000.
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We did some checking and found that another bowl set a record for Rie a little less than one year ago. The blue-glazed work was purchased by agents acting on behalf of an overseas client for £57,340. The Phillips auction tops this one by more than £10,000.
Footed Bowl netted nowhere close to Odundo’s haul but perhaps they’re examples of an upward trend in the UK design market. In Rie’s case, that’s certainly true.
Bill Rodgers is the General Editor of CFile.
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Lucie Rie, Footed Bowl, ca. 1980, porcelain, inlaid pink lines, turquoise and golden manganese bands. Images courtesy of Phillips. Click to see a larger image.
This info is very wellcome!
The Trend for ceramics showing better times to come is just lovely!!!
And we can do the correction in our “Dame Lucy Rie” pieces and others to have a realy fitting inssurance at our ceramics museum…
Please keep me informed…