Clarice Cliff: A Price Guide - Hardcover

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Clarice Cliff is one of the most important and well known Art Deco ceramic designersdesigners of the 1920s and 1930s. the popularity of her Art Deco classics has led to a large international collectors market.

Clarice Cliff is one of the most important and well-known art deco ceramic designers in Britain and abroad. Her bright hand-painted tablewares decorated with stylised landscapes, flowers and a whole range of abstract patterns skilfully applied to art deco shapes took the rather traditional and reserved British pottery market by storm during the late 1920s and 1930s. Bizarre, her first range, was in such demand that new tea and coffee ware shapes were created for the table alongside vases, face masks and many amusing fancies.

This book looks at how Clarice Cliff became so successful, through great determination, her intuitive sense of colour and shape and an understanding of what sort of pottery the younger generation wanted in their new homes. This was coupled with her great ability to interpret the latest contemporary patterns and shapes from Europe and adapt the style for the more reserved British market. The demand for her art deco classics has led to a large international collectors' market which has grown considerably over the last twenty years with specialist auctions and exhibitions dedicated to her life and work proving so popular that the prices realised for certain rare and less well-known items have exceeded 215,000.

As well as focusing on collecting Clarice Cliff pottery and highlighting the development of her patterns and shapes, the book contains a full colour price guide featuring over 170 different Clarice Cliff pieces sold at auction houses in the United Kingdom.

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