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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A Clarice Cliff fourteen piece 'Christmas Leaves' coffee…

Clarice Cliff 'Christmas Leaves' 14-Piece Coffee Service, 1930s

A Clarice Cliff fourteen piece 'Christmas Leaves' coffee service, 1930s, in pattern 6317 from the Bizarre range, the engine turned service with a beehive shaped coffee pot, five cups with associated saucers, a milk jug and saucer and a large oval platter,…

A Dame Laura knight A.R.A. For Clarice Cliff hand painted first…

Laura Knight Hand-Painted Clarice Cliff Charger, 1934

A Dame Laura knight A.R.A. For Clarice Cliff hand painted first edition porcelain charger, 1934, with maroon factory 'Designed by Laura knight A.R.A. Produced in Bizarre by Clarice Cliff, Wilkinson Ltd England' marks, dated and editioned 'First edition…

A large Clarice Cliff enamelled porcelain Sir Frank Brangwyn…

Clarice Cliff Enamelled Porcelain Sir Frank Brangwyn Wall Charger

A large Clarice Cliff enamelled porcelain Sir Frank Brangwyn series wall charger, circa 1930's, signed and detailed to verso 'The Brangwyn panels designed for the Royal gallery of the house of Lords 1925, first exhibited at Olympia 1933, painted by…

Rare Clarice Cliff Applique pattern charger handpainted oranges…

Handpainted Clarice Cliff Charger with Oranges and Wagon

Rare Clarice Cliff Applique pattern charger handpainted oranges & wagon, 34 cm diameter.

Clarice Cliff cake plates, colourful leaf design platter with…

Clarice Cliff Leaf Platter and Cake Plates Set

Clarice Cliff cake plates, colourful leaf design platter with matching cake plates five piece

A Clarice Cliff pottery tea set for six, comprising six teacups…

Clarice Cliff Tea Set for Six

A Clarice Cliff pottery tea set for six, comprising six teacups and saucers, sugar, creamer, teapot and sweets platter, height 18 cm

Five Clarice Cliff 'Paris' wares: a platter, square bowl, and…

Clarice Cliff 'Paris' Collection

Five Clarice Cliff 'Paris' wares: a platter, square bowl, and trio, Introduced 1952, designed by Eric Elliott, hand enamelled lithographs of bold maroon roses with foliage upon a cream ground; with Royal Staffordshire Ceramics for Clarice Cliff backstamp…

Clarice Cliff 'Marigold' charger, with black factory stamp and…

Clarice Cliff Marigold Charger, Hand Painted

Clarice Cliff 'Marigold' charger, with black factory stamp and hand painted 'Marigold' verso. Diameter .31 cm

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 red Picasso flower pattern Bizarre platter hand…

Hand-painted Clarice Cliff Bizarre Platter with Picasso Flower Pattern

Clarice Cliff red Picasso flower pattern Bizarre platter hand painted, with factory mark to base. Length 33 cm

A Clarice Cliff 'Latona Tree' charger, English, circa 1929. 45.…

Clarice Cliff 'Latona Tree' Charger, 1929

A Clarice Cliff 'Latona Tree' charger, English, circa 1929. 45.5 cm diameter

A large Clarice Cliff painted charger designed by Dame Laura…

Laura Knight Clarice Cliff Charger, 1934

A large Clarice Cliff painted charger designed by Dame Laura Knight, English, circa 1934. 46 cm diameter

A Clarice Cliff bizarre 'Blue Secrets' charger, English, circa…

"Blue Secrets" Clarice Cliff Charger (1930)

A Clarice Cliff bizarre 'Blue Secrets' charger, English, circa 1930. 45 cm diameter

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…