9 Pieces of Vintage Royal Staffordshire Chelsea Rose Clarice Cliff Dinnerware
Highly Collectible Set of Nine Vintage English George V (1940s) Royal Staffordshire "Chelsea Rose" Dinnerware Porcelain Pieces By "Clarice Cliff". These are some of Clarice Cliff's earliest works. Please browse all 12 sets of photographs attached for size and condition as they are self explanatory.
A round 80 years old so o bviously not new but there are no chips nor cracks and minimal crazing to 8 pieces but the largest piece, the cake platter, was at some point in the past broken in half and professionally repaired so please browse the last four photographs very carefully and enlarge them to see the repair. This piece might even crack again in transport although I will do my utmost to pack it carefully so it reaches you intact.George VI was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death in 1952. He was concurrently the last Emperor of India until August 1947, when the British Raj was dissolved. "Royal Staffordshire Pottery" was the factory of A. Wilkinson and early ware c. 1910 sometimes have the factory name without the company name.
Clarice Cliff was born (1899) into a working class family in Tunstall. She showed artistic promise at school and left at age 13 to work as an apprentice enameller at a local factory 3 years later moving to another firm as an apprentice lithographer, at the same time she attended evening classes at Tunstall School of Art. In 1916 at 17 she joined A J Wilkinson's pottery where her drawing brought her to the attention of the owner, Colley Shorter and he allowed her to experiment on some old stock. In 1927 he arranged for her to study sculpture at the Royal College of Art in London. Later in 1927 she studied in Paris.By 1929 her designs went into full production as'Hand Painted Bizarre by Clarice Cliff'. By 1931 she was an Art Director of the factory with a decorating team of around 150. Clarice Cliff and Shorter eventually married. In 2009 Will Farmer of the BBC Antiques Roadshow and members of the Clarice Cliff Collectors Club unveiled three plaques. These were on her birthplace, Meir Street, Tunstall, her second home on Edwards Street, Tunstall and the site of Newport Pottery by the canal in Burslem where her Bizarre ware was decorated.
These were featured in special Antiques Roadshow programme that December. In September 2009 the Victoria and Albert Museum in London opened its'New Ceramics Galleries' and Cliff's work was chosen to be included: There will be two rooms displaying 20th-century collections. One will show ceramics made in a factory context and will include objects by designers such as Susie Cooper and Clarice Cliff.The exhibition and the first book published privately in 1976'Clarice Cliff' by Peter Wentworth-Sheilds and Kay Johnson (L'Odeon publishing) marked the start of a major revival of interest in Cliff's work, which has continued to be sought after by ceramic collectors, around the globe, ever since. This item is in the category "Pottery, Ceramics & Glass\Decorative Cookware & Tableware\Platters". The seller is "santoor-uk" and is located in this country: GB. This item can be shipped worldwide.
- Origin: United Kingdom
- Number of Items in Set: 9
- Antique: No
- Shape: As In Photos Attached
- Custom Bundle: No
- MPN: Chelsea Rose
- Year Manufactured: 1940s
- Colour: Beige & Pink
- Vintage: Yes
- Original/Licensed Reproduction: Original
- Style: George VI
- Features: Clarice Cliff Design
- Production Style: Dinner Ware
- Finish: Glossy
- Handmade: Yes
- Pattern: Chelsea Rose
- Material: Ironstone
- Brand: Royal Staffordshire
- Type: Cups, Saucers, Bowl & Platter.
- Model: Chelsea Rose
- Packaging: Unboxed
- Theme: Clarice Cliff
- Time Period Manufactured: 1940-1949
- Production Technique: Pottery
- Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
- Backstamp: Printed
- Item Weight: 1.5kg
- Product Line: Chelsea Rose