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 Colourful Clarice Cliff
Clarice Cliff is a Potteries born and bred artist whose popular Art Deco designs of the 1930's are fetching huge amounts of cash at auction. One of the rarer pieces was sold for £40,000 recently. LAUNCHED in 1927, few would have predicted the evergreen appeal of the bright and bold Bi ...
- Fat Lava
Fat Lava is the term used for a specific style of ceramics produced in West Germany during the 1960's and 1970's. After establishing themselves at the forefront of ceramic design in the 1950's West German manufacturers underwent an iconic period of avante-garde design styles throughout the sty ...
- LATER CHINESE PORCELAIN
When the Emperor Wanli died in 1620, the Ming dynasty began to fall apart. During this difficult Transitional period very little was produced in the imperial kilns. However, good quality attractive porcelain was made in the provinces in private kilns, many of which employed potters that had m ...
- EARLY CHINESE PORCELAIN
A certain amount of Porcelain was produced in the Yuan dynasty (1280-1368) decorated in underglaze blue. It was sometime, however, before the highly fashionable Celadon wares were overtaken by the these crisply decorated porcelains, which were initially seen as rather vulgar. In 1368 the Mongo ...
- EARLY CHINESE POTTERY
Most Types of early Chinese pottery are available to the collector. Condition and quality are more important than sheer age. The most collectable pieces tend to be figures. Until the end of the Song dynasty in 1280, generally Chinese ceramics were either stoneware or earthenware. The Han Dyna ...
- Celadon Pottery
Celadon pottery, with its characteristic clear jade colour and elegant curves, originated in Korea hundreds of years ago. The glazing process was perfected through precisely mixed clay, wood ash glaze, and double firing in a specially sealed kiln. Earthenware begins as wet, moulded clay that ca ...
- Cobalt blue painted pottery from 18th Dynasty Egypt
Cobalt blue painted pottery was produced in New Kingdom Egypt, with the heyday for its production being from about 1400 BC to 1200 BC. Previous scientific examination has established that the cobalt blue pigment was a CoAl-spinel, which it was suggested was produced from cobaltiferous ...
- Gaudy Welsh
Gaudy Welsh adorned the much loved Welsh Dressers in cottages and farmhouses in Wales and even today this is still the best way to display the wares. It first appeared in Staffordshire, England around the late 1820's. The main colours chosen for decoration were Orange,(dark and light) greens a ...
- Lustre Ware
Many years ago when rooms were lit only by oil lamps and candles, people loved to have things around them that shone and glowed in this soft light.Wealthy people had their silver and glass, their burnished fire-dogs,their gilded furniture: but the less well off had to do it in other ways.One of ...
- More about Minton Majolica
Marks and Identification Minton were fortunately pretty good at marking their wares so you will invariably find an impressed mark on the Majolica pieces. The name Minton or Mintons (used after 1873) all appear. Little symbols were also used as the year cypher thereby allowing the collector to ...
- Wemyss Ware
The name Wemyss® was given to the new style of pottery in honour of the Wemyss family of the nearby Wemyss castle, who were early and enthusiastic patrons of the ware. The most outstanding feature of the ware is the free-flowing and naturalistic hand painting. The pottery was immediately s ...
- Lotus Ware
Lotus Ware is considered to be possibly the finest porcelain ever produced in the United States. It was made during the 1890s by East Liverpool's own Knowles, Taylor & Knowles pottery. Lotus proved to be so delicate that only about one in every twelve pieces made it through these kilns unsc ...
- Beswick Pottery 1892 - 2002
James Wright Beswick founded his pottery business "J. W. Beswick" , in Longton, Stoke-on Trent, England in 1892. His sons John and Gilbert along with John's son, John Ewart all played a part in the factories tremendous success. Initially producing tableware and ornaments. After the 1914-1918 wa ...
- Collectible Cornishware Pottery
The most famous of the ceramics associated with the county of Cornwall, Cornishware, also called Cornish Blue, has always been made in Derbyshire and has no connection at all with Cornwall apart from its name. We've all seen the traditional Cornishware. Even if you aren't a collector, you wil ...
- North Staffordshire Pottery Marks - Portmeirion Potteries Ltd
- Collecting Portmeirion Pottery
Portmeirion Pottery attracts keen collectors. Some boast a collection of 4000 pieces and collect across the whole range of Portmeirion. Others concentrate on particular designs like Botanic Garden or Magic Garden. Then there are collectors who buy Portmeirion because it overlaps with their area ...
- Portmeirion Pottery
Portmeirion Pottery's most famous design is Botanic Garden but the company has produced a wide range of pottery from the sumptuous to the bizarre. Of course, designer Susan Williams-Ellis is the daughter of Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, the creator of the bizarre village of Portmeirion so it is no ...
- Susie Cooper 29 October 1902 – 28 July 1995
A prolific English ceramics desigtner working in the Stoke on Trent pottery industry from the 1920s to the 1980s. From an early age she developed an interest in drawing and began her art education at night classes. In 1922 she joined A E Gray & co. partially as a means to gain entry t the R ...
- The Life of Clarice Cliff Part 1
In 1930, when Clarice Cliff became Art Director of Newport Pottery, she achieved the distinction of being the first woman to reach such a high echelon in the Potteries. She was, in effect, what we would nowadays call a career woman but at the time when ...
- The Life of Clarice Cliff Part 3
In spring 1927 Clarice Cliff left Gladys producing these trial pieces while she was sent to the prestigious Royal College of Art, in London’s Kensington. Her fees were paid by Colley, who saw this as a way of refining her innate ability. However, ...
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