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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Large Clarice Cliff My garden basket vase 36 cm height

Clarice Cliff Garden Basket Vase - 36cm Height

Large Clarice Cliff My garden basket vase 36 cm height

Good Clarice Cliff ceramic figural candlestick depicting a…

Clarice Cliff Figural Candlestick with Suspended Blossom

Good Clarice Cliff ceramic figural candlestick depicting a woman in black robe holding a suspended blossom decorated candle holder, marked 'Clarice Cliff, Newport Pottery', to base, height 18 cm. Restored below basket.'.

Clarice Cliff Fantasque orange trees & Houses pattern basket,…

Clarice Cliff Orange Tree Basket with Frog

Clarice Cliff Fantasque orange trees & Houses pattern basket, of quatrefoil outline with original frog, 34 cm high

A large Clarice Cliff 'Bizarre' basket vase, in the Gayday…

Clarice Cliff Bizarre Gayday Basket Vase, 36cm Height

A large Clarice Cliff 'Bizarre' basket vase, in the Gayday pattern, moulded basket weave surface painted in bright enamels. Hairline crack to one side, height 36 cm.

A Clarice Cliff 'Celtic harvest' basket vase$1936-38, the…

Clarice Cliff Celtic Harvest Basket Vase

A Clarice Cliff 'Celtic harvest' basket vase$1936-38, the moulded boat shaped body with an arching fruit handle, wheat sheaves and trailing floral motifs to the textured body, in bright orange, yellow, emerald and apple green colours on a cream ground;…

Clarice Cliff table bowl embossed with fruit and woven basket…

Embossed Fruit Bowl by Clarice Cliff

Clarice Cliff table bowl embossed with fruit and woven basket pattern, printed marks, 23 cm diameter