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During World War II only plain white pottery (utility ware) was permitted under wartime regulations, so Cliff assisted with management of the pottery but was not able to continue design work. Instead she concentrated her creative talents on gardening and the massive 4-acre (1.6 ha) garden at Chetwynd House became her shared passion with Shorter.
[2] [1] At the same time, Bailey began designing a series of cottage and trees and abstract patterns based on the pottery of Clarice Cliff. These were produced by the Old Ellgreave Pottery in underglaze colours. In December 1995, when Bailey was 17, her House and Path and Sunburst patterns were put into full production. [1]
The plaque will be unveiled in Stoke-on-Trent on Friday by arts and heritage minister Lord Parkinson.
Items by Moorcroft (the factory of William Moorcroft), Clarice Cliff, Troika, René Lalique and Bergmann appear frequently. Previously unrecorded works by artists such as portrait painter Augustus Henry Fox have also been discovered. [7]
– Clarice Cliff Mr Fish wall pocket, 1930s, £150, and fake Clarice Cliff ornament – collection of cartoon Careless Talk Costs Live posters from World War II by Fougasse (=Cyril Kenneth Bird), £1,500 – broken Japanese Arita porcelain cat, made in 1680, £300
The Great Pottery Throw Down has been filmed on location there since 2020, having moved from Middleport Pottery. In 2021, it was used as a regular location for both Netflix TV Series The Irregulars based on the characters from the Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes novels and The Colour Room about the local Pottery designer Clarice Cliff.
Cliff knew that there was a huge stock of undecorated sub-standard ceramics held in the pottery. She covered up the imperfections on them with bright Art Deco-style patterns, thereby creating her Bizarre range. The sceptical head salesman for the pottery took the ceramics to a shop in Oxford because it had a female buyer. The shop bought the ...
– 24 piece Biaritz dinner service by Clarice Cliff, £2,500 – Japanese cast metal casket, 1890s, decorated with scenes, e.g. silver snow on Mount Fuji, £2,000 – 'over and under' 1770s shotgun by Joseph Bunney of Birmingham-London, Birmingham Gun Quarter, £15,000 – 17th century Venetian pottery – Pharmacy drug jar. £2,500