The life story of English potter and designer Clarice Cliff, (1899-1972) is a real-life rags-to riches story. Clarice was born in the potteries area in Tunstall, Staffordshire in 1899, and her father was an iron moulder, while her mother took in washing.

She attended school until age 13 and then left to work in a lowly paid job in the potteries. At that time the potteries were the major employers of women in the North Staffordshire and at the time she commenced work there were over 20,000 women employed.

The jobs for women ranged from being assistants to the men who threw the pots, to the less menial but repetitive task of painting prescribed designs onto clay blanks.

After 10 years, and a several of changes of employer, she had learned a number of trades and mastered the techniques of gilding, enamelling, lithography and design.

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Clarice Cliff English porcelain dinner and table ware, (16…

Clarice Cliff English porcelain dinner and table ware, (16 items), mixed condition. the larger fruit bowl10.5 cm high, 24 cm wide

Clarice Cliff Crocus pattern dinner ware comprising two tureen…

Clarice Cliff Crocus Dinnerware Set

Clarice Cliff Crocus pattern dinner ware comprising two tureen and covers, six dinners, six entree plates (one with rim chip), six b&b plates, six bowls, three graduated ashets and gravy boat with tray

Clarice Cliff 'Bizarre' dinner plate marked to base, and…

Clarice Cliff 'Bizarre' Dinner Plate with Graham Sutherland Design

Clarice Cliff 'Bizarre' dinner plate marked to base, and 'Designed by, Graham Sutherland, First Edition, 1934,' diameter 23 cm

A Clarice Cliff dinner service, includes four entree plates,…

Clarice Cliff Dinner Set with Jug and Plates

A Clarice Cliff dinner service, includes four entree plates, six bread & butter plates, a jug, pattern no. 840076 c.1940s

A fifty piece Clarice Cliff orange Bizarre 'Aura' dinner…

Clarice Cliff Bizarre 'Aura' Dinner Service, 1934

A fifty piece Clarice Cliff orange Bizarre 'Aura' dinner service, circa 1934, comprising: eight soup coupes with covers and saucers, four trios, four dinner plates and four shallow salad bowls, a gravy boat and saucer, plus one spare lid; with Bizarre…

Extensive Clarice Cliff 'Honeyglaze' dinner set, to include 6…

Clarice Cliff Honeyglaze Dinner Set

Extensive Clarice Cliff 'Honeyglaze' dinner set, to include 6 dinner plates, 6 entree plates, 6 side plates, 6 dessert bowls, 6 soup bowls, 6 coffee cups and saucers, coffee pot sugar and creamer, gravy boat and saucer, 3 piece condiment set, dish, lidded…

Forty piece Clarice Cliff 'Chelsea rose'dinner set to include 6…

Clarice Cliff 'Chelsea Rose' 40-Piece Dinner Set

Forty piece Clarice Cliff 'Chelsea rose'dinner set to include 6 cups,6 saucers, 6 side/entree/dinner plates,6 soup cups,lidded tureen,platter, together with a gravy boat

Clarice Cliff the Biarritz Royal Staffordshire 'Bizarre' dinner…

Clarice Cliff Bizarre Dinner Set with 47 Pieces

Clarice Cliff the Biarritz Royal Staffordshire 'Bizarre' dinner set green and yellow banded pattern, printed factory marks to base, impressed '34', two platters, two lidded tureens, four dinner plates, six soup plates, six dessert plates, twelve side…

A thirty one piece Clarice Cliff dinner service, circa 1934, in…

Clarice Cliff Aura Dinner Service, 31 pieces

A thirty one piece Clarice Cliff dinner service, circa 1934, in 'Aura' (green), pattern 6385. A setting for six comprising soup, dinner, entree and bread and butter plates, two covered tureens, three oval platters, a gravy boat with stand, having a hand…

Clarice Cliff Art Deco 24 pieces part tea and dinner, set, in…

Clarice Cliff Spring Crocus Art Deco Dinnerware Set

Clarice Cliff Art Deco 24 pieces part tea and dinner, set, in the 'Spring Crocus' design, design first introduced c.1935, comprising of: six dinner plates, six bread plates, six side plates, three graduated jugs, fruit bowl, sugar bowl with lid, teapot…

A twelve piece Clarice Cliff fruit service.

Complete Clarice Cliff Fruit Set - 12 Pieces

A twelve piece Clarice Cliff fruit service.