Clarice Cliff needs no introduction to the majority of collectors and I have for sale four Clarice Cliff dessert dishes all in perfect condition without chips, cracks or crazing and without showing any damage to the gold design.

They measure 15.5 cm in diameter and are approx. 4 cm deep. The colour is a gorgeous deep cream which unfortunately my camera hasn’t captured.

At the age of 17 Clarice Cliff was working for the Royal Staffordshire Pottery. She attended evening classes at Burslem School of Art from 1924-1925 and studied sculpture at the Royal College of Art in 1927, but returned after only a few months to set up a small studio in Wilkinson's Newport Pottery, decorating traditional white-ware.

In 1930 she was made Art Director of A. J Wilkinson, and by 1931 Clarice Cliff was supervising a workforce of up to 1000 at the Newport Pottery, with 150 boys and girls

In 1940, following the death of his first wife, Clarice Cliff married Colley Shorter of Shorter Pottery fame. Her designing career ended with her marriage and World War II, during which time there was a ban on decorated china, and she retired to live in Shorter's Arts & Craft mansion in the Staffordshire countryside.

Her husband died in 1963 and the following year she sold the business to Midwinter Pottery, a company established in the 1950s, and became a recluse. Her death in 1972 was unexpected.

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