Clarice Cliff Creamer – Newport Pottery, England

Clarice Cliff’s pottery is highly collectable.  This is a small creamer with the Waterlily design.

Clarice  was born in 1899 and died in 1972.  She was an English ceramic artist and designer active from 1922 to 1963. In 1928, By 1929, Cliff’s decorators had grown to a team of around 70 young painters. Of those, 66 were women (called ‘Bizarre girls’) and 4 were boys. Many of these workers were traced in the 1980s and 1990s and they totaled over 100.  In 1930, Cliff was appointed as art director at Newport Pottery and A. J. Wilkinson, the two adjoining factories that produced her wares. In the mid 30s tastes changed and heavily modeled ware came into vogue. The My Garden series issued from 1934 onwards led the way, with small flowers modelled as a handle or base on more rounded shapes. These were fully painted in bright colours – the body of the ware was covered in thin colour washes – ‘Verdant’ was green, ‘Sunrise’ yellow and so on. The range included vases, bowls, jugs, a biscuit barrel, and proved very popular as gift ware. It was produced in more muted colours, right until the start of the war in 1939. This creamer is part of this series.