Clarice Cliff

Bizzare-Ware-Clarice-Cliff-polychrome glazed charger

Bizarre Ware dish – Clarice Cliff

 

 

Clarice Cliff pottery collection

Clarice Cliff

 

 

Clarice Cliff was recognized as one of the major  Art Deco ceramics designer of the Twentieth Century and possibly the most prolific. Born in 1899, Clarice Cliff started working at the age of 13 as an apprentice enameler. In 1916 she joined A. J. Wilkinson’s Royal Staffordshire Pottery as a lithographer and eventually went on to develop a small studio in Wilkinson’s Newport Pottery, decorating traditional white-ware. Cliff was ambitious and acquired skills in modelling figurines and vases, gilding, keeping pattern books and hand painting ware: outlining, enameling, filling in colours within the outline) and banding (the radial bands on plates or vessels ). Her first original style she named ” Bizzare” and was immediately popular.

Clarice Cliff coffee pot, creamer and sugar bowl

By 1929, Cliff’s team of decorators had grown to a team of around 70 young painters, mainly women (called her ‘Bizarre girls’) but also four boys – who hand painted the ware under her direction. Many of these workers were traced in the 1980s and 1990s and they totalled over 100. The Fantasque range evolved between 1928 and 1934 and mainly featured abstracts or landscapes of cottages and trees, and some Art Deco inspired patterns.

Clarice Cliff’s fame and success in the 1930s are hard to fully appreciate now, but at that time there was no such thing as ‘career women’. The publicity she received in the national press was unprecedented. Cliffs wares were exported all over the world and can still turn up in Op shops, garage sales and Bric a Brac shops.

Claire Cliff tea set - cream and pale blue colour - teapot, creamer, sugar bowl, teacups

Art Deco tea set – Clarice Cliff

 

 

Clarice Cliff Meiping Vase in red, green, blue and white

Meiping Vase – Clarice Cliff

 

 

Bizarre Ware Coral Firs vase Art Deco by Clarice Cliff

Coral Firs vase _ Clarice Cliff

circa 1933

 

 

Jazz Age art deco teapot - Clarice Cliff

Jazz Age teapot – Clarice Cliff

1930’s

 

 

 

Art Deco jug with abstract motif - Clarice Cliff

Clarice Cliff jug

 

 

Clarice Cliff Honolulu vase

‘Honolulu’ Vase – Clarice Cliff

circa 1933

 

 

Clarice Cliff conical bowl

Conical Bowl – Clarice Cliff

 

 

Clarice Cliff vase and coffee pot in art deco style

Art Deco baluster vase and teapot – Clarice Cliff

 

 

Clarice Cliff Sunburst Lotus jugSunburst Lotus Jug by Clarice Cliff

 

 

 

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Art Deco baluster vase – Clarice Cliff

 

 

 

Clarice-Cliff-windbells-teacup-and-saucerWindbells Cup & Saucer

 

 

Clarice Cliff Vase – Sunray

ca. 1929 Burslem UK

V & A Museum

 

 

Clarice-Cliff-Picasso-Flower-vase with ribbed neck

‘Picasso Flower’ vase – Clarice Cliff

 

 

Living Landscapes of Clarice Cliff 'Fantasque Mountain' plate

Wedgwood – The Bizarre Living Landscapes of Clarice Cliff ‘Fantasque Mountain’ plate

 

 

Clarice Cliff cup and saucer with floral decoration

Teacup and saucer – Clarice Cliff

 Clarice Cliff shape 353 vase of footed bell 1928

Original Bizarre Clarice Cliff shape 353 vase of footed bell 1928

 

 

Clarice-Cliff-windbells motif dish

Wedgewood Clarice Cliff plate – ‘Windbells’

 

 

Huntley Cottage sugar vessel by Clarice Cliff

Moorland Art Deco ” Huntley Cottage ” Sugar Pot – design by Clarice Cliff

 

Clarice Cliff My Garden vase

Clarice Cliff  ” My Garden ” footed vase

 

 

Art Deco conical Sugar Sifter by Clarice Cliff

Clarice Cliff Moorland Limited Edition Sugar Sifter

 

 

Large footed conical Art Deco handpainted bowl designed by Clarice Cliff

Large Conical Bowl Clarice Cliff

 

 

Orange-capri-sleeve-vase-by-Clarice -Cliff

Clarice Cliff Bizarre Orange Capri Shape Sleeve Vase

 

 

 

Baluster vase Art Deco style -CLARICE-CLIFF1930

Clarice Cliff Art Deco vase

1933

 

 

 

LIMITED-EDITION-FIGURE-OF-''YOUNG-CLARICE-CLIFF-renaissance

‘Young Clarice Cliff’ figurine

 

 

 

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Clarice Cliff vase

 

 

 

Clarice-Cliff-'Orange-Autumn'-Bonjour-Preserve-Pot

‘Orange Autumn’ Bonjour Preserve Pot – Clarice Cliff

 

 

 

Clarice-Cliff-English-pottery Egyptian Revival vase

Clarice Cliff

 

 

 

Clarice-Cliff-Bizarre-Picasso-Flower-pattern-Odilon-jug-Bamfords-Auctions

Bizarre ware ‘Picasso Flower’ pattern Odilon jug – Clarice Cliff

BanfordsAuctions.co.uk

 

 

 

Clarice-Cliff-'Applique-Blossom'-464-shaped-vase-dating-to-1931

‘Applique Blossom’ 464 shaped vase – Clarice Cliff

1931

Clarice-Cliff-(1899-1972)---'Bizarre'-Archaic-Vase

‘Bizarre Ware’ Archaic Vase  – Clarice Cliff

 

 

 

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Fantasque Sunrise pattern three piece condiment set — Clarice Cliff

Banfords Auctions.co.uk

 
 
 

 

1 Comment

  1. JACK COHEN
    Posted March 29, 2018 at 10:48 pm | Permalink

    I wish to purchase a reproduction 1930’s JAZZ AGE TEAPOT – CLARICE CLIFF. I live in Johannesburg. How do I go about getting one ?

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