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Cliff, Clarice (1899 - 1972
Apprenticed aged 13 to local potteries, before joining A J Wilkinson Royal Staffordhsire Potteries in 1916; trained in all aspects of pottery including design and modelling; under the tutelage of factory owner Colley Shorter, attended Sculpture course at Royal College of Art; went on to become Art Director of A J Wilkinson at age 31; devised Bizarre and Fantasque ranges, inspired by Cubism.)
Plate, earthenware, round; the body of the plate is glazed yellow, the rim is coloured in bright orange with a slim ring of the glaze and black running around the middle of this section. The well of the plate shows the bottom of a stylised yellow flower with brightly coloured (pink, blue and black) foliage in the background, all on the backdrop of the yellow glaze.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 39557
Creation/Production
Cliff, Clarice
Date: 1931
Acquisition
Gift, 20/10/2014
Given by Libby Nyman in loving memory of Henry Nyman.
Measurements
Depth
(in): 9
Height
(in): 1
Depth
(cm): 23.5
Height
(cm): 2.5
Techniques
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
jiggered
forming
Applied Art
Material
earthenware
Location
In store
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