Clarice Cliff - Midnight Flower - A 9 inch circular plate ci...

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£1,400

Clarice Cliff - Midnight Flower - A 9 inch circular plate circa 1932, hand painted in an unrecorded trial floral pattern with large stylised blooms in red and yellow over the honey glazed ground with full black out enamel across the rest of the plate, the reverse hand written - HAND PAINTED Bizarre by Clarice - Newport Pottery England, measures 22.5cm.

N.B - This unrecorded design is most likely by Clarice Cliff herself. The flower blooms hand executed by Clarice and then to the front there is the word 'Black' just flashing through the black enamel ground, indicating that this was inked in as instruction to one of the paintresses to fill in the ground colour. The mark to the reverse has been written using a dip pen rather than brush, most likely the same one used by the paintresses for the decoration of the Applique pattern. Comparison of the signature indicates that the mark to the reverse was also executed by Clarice Cliff herself.

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There is a small old chip to the outer edge which has been touched in.