FANTASTIC FLOWERS OF CLARIC CLIFF

by Leonard Griffin (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $3.25

  A companion to TAKING TEA WITH CLARICE CLIFF, creating a record of the life of the ceramic artist Clarice Cliff. Includes photographs taken by Cliff of her home Chetwynd and its garden, and previously unpublished extracts from her letters. Includes an A-Z directory of Cliff's floral designs and valuations on a variety of Clarice Cliff shapes.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1998

  $3.25

  By 1930 Clarice Cliff had become the Potteries first woman designer, famous for her Bizarre ware, her amazing Art Deco ceramics and, in the 1930s, her floral designs, which formed the bulk of her sales - such as her much-loved Crocus design. Reproducing original colour transparencies, and drawing on Clarice's observations on her garden from letters written to a lifelong friend, this book explores her lifelong love of flowers and its impact on her work, showing how many of her designs - her stylized Applique and Latona florals, her Marguerite ware of 1931 or her 1934 My Garden - were inspired by that love and were later to be echoed in the flowers in her garden. It includes an A-Z directory of her floral designs, and valuations on a variety of Clarice Cliff shapes based on Christie's prices.