In 1922, when Lucie Rie was 20 years old, she learned how to throw clay. Vienna born and trained, the Jewish ceramicist would make most of her bowls and vessels in London, where she landed after fleeing the Nazis. And yet these objects are distinctly Austrian, or more specifically, Wiener Werkstätte. Rie’s British contemporaries were making heavy, earth-toned objects. Her work was more fragile: thin bowls with careful cross-hatching; bottles with large, unevenly flared lips. She rarely discussed her art in public. “I like to make pots,” Rie once told a reporter, “but I do not like to talk about them.” An exhibition of her ceramics, on at Kettle’s Yard, is displaying more than 100 bowls, vases, and pieces of tableware. —Jensen Davis