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A dealer discusses Clarice Cliff, the English ceramics icon
Pottery with riotous color, special charm and a “home and garden” feel-good quality expressed in a series of specific themes was made by designer Clarice Cliff in the 1920s and ’30s. Cara Antiques’ Connie Aranosian has an impressive collection of Cliff and we asked her to talk about her work because even after all these decades Cliff ceramics are not widely known outside England.
All of the factory workers who decorated Cliff pottery were women, known as the “Bizarre Girls,” after the “Bizarre” ware pottery style which Aranosian shows us in this video was made at the New York Ceramics Fair – an annual event geared to serious collectors of high end European and Asian porcelain that takes place in January.
For more on Clarice Cliff, consult two collecting websites which provide a full list of pottery patterns and archival photographs of the factory where her wares were produced. The Clarice Cliff Website and Clarice Cliff Collectors Club
