Saucer
Clarice Cliff (Tunstall 1899 - Clayton 1972)
Category
Ceramics
Date
1946 - 1950
Materials
Glazed Earthenware with hand-painted decoration.
Place of origin
Burslem
Collection
Nuffield Place, Oxfordshire
NT 1652515.15
Summary
Glazed earthenware saucer. Part of a coffee set, consisting of coffee pot and lid, milk jug, sugar bowl and six cups and saucers. Hand decorated with red floral border patterns on white slip. Colour floral spray to centre. Gilded band edges. 'Windsor' shape designed by Clarice Cliff for A. J. Wilkinson Ltd, at the Royal Staffordshire Pottery, Burslem, Staffordshire. Unnamed surface pattern probably also by Clarice Cliff, c.1946-1950.
Provenance
Collection William R. Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, by bequest to Nuffield College, University of Oxford, 1963, by transfer to National Trust, Nuffield Place, 2011.
Makers and roles
Clarice Cliff (Tunstall 1899 - Clayton 1972), designer A. J. Wilkinson Ltd., factory