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TAKING TEA WITH CLARICE CLIFF: A CELEBRATION OF HER ART DECO TEAWARE.

TAKING TEA WITH CLARICE CLIFF: A CELEBRATION OF HER ART DECO TEAWARE.

TAKING TEA WITH CLARICE CLIFF: A CELEBRATION OF HER ART DECO TEAWARE.
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TAKING TEA WITH CLARICE CLIFF: A CELEBRATION OF HER ART DECO TEAWARE.

by GRIFFIN, LEONARD:

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ISBN 13
9781857939255
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UK,square 12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn, dw/dj unclipped - no price! Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated, colour photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - as new.Top+fore-edges bright,crisp and clean,contents bright,tight and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Dw/dj design repeated to glossy boards,with immaculate,glossy,plain yellow endpapers.UK,square,slim 12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,6-119pp [paginated] includes 5 chapters+list of contributors,profuse b/w+colour (majority) photographs throughout the text and book,a glossary and bibliography; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,colour photographic frntis,and contents list/ table. Bold,bright hand-painted designs and outrageous shapes are the hallmarks of Clarice Cliff's ceramics.She had a genius for the unconventional.Evoking the spirit of the Twenties and Thirties,her work epitomizes the startling pottery that revolutionized the Staffordshire Potteries industry and brought her spectacular success.Her teapots are avidly collected today: originally three shillings,they now cost thousands of pounds.Leonard Griffin,the leading expert on Clarice Cliff,celebrates the life and work of the working-class girl who rose from apprentice to designer and became the first woman Art Director in the Potteries.When in 1928 she had the chance to decorate left-over stock of old-fashioned ware,she threw away the rule book and launched her hugely popular 'Bizarre' ware - and her own frantic career.With the encouragement of her mentor Colley Shorter she established her own team of sixty paintresses at her studio and decorating shop at Newport Pottery,her 'Bizarre girls' who executed her zany designs. Her innovative Art Deco shapes,such as her famous 'Conical' with triangular feet and handles or her flat- sided 'Stamford',in abstract, geometric,landscape and floral patterns - the 'Fantastique' and 'Crocus' ranges among the most popular - found an enthusiastic market for the next ten years.The inspiration, sources and development of Clarice Cliff's art and the tales of her tremendous teapots are provided here with a directory of designs and shapes (with auction prices provided by Christie's).Illustrated with nostagically styled photographs,'Taking Tea with Clarice Cliff' recalls a moment of joy within the great Depression when the joie de vivre of one person could spread a little happiness!
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Title
TAKING TEA WITH CLARICE CLIFF: A CELEBRATION OF HER ART DECO TEAWARE.
Author
GRIFFIN, LEONARD:
Illustrator
b/w+colour photography by Michael Slaney and Leonard Griffin.
Book Condition
Used - FINE.
Jacket Condition
FINE.
Quantity Available
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Edition
UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
1857939255
ISBN 13
9781857939255
Publisher
LONDON.PAVILION BOOKS LTD.,1996.
Place of Publication
London
This edition first published
March 1996
Keywords
q52.GENERAL.UK,square 12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.ISBN 1857939255.CLARICE CLIFF_ART DECO TEAWARE.Clarice Cliff Collectors Club.Clarice Cliff_teapots_shapes_Athens_Bon Jour_Conical_Daffodil_Eton_Globe_Le Bon Dieu_Lynton_Stamford_Trieste_Circus_novelty teapots.
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Size
Slim,square 12mo.

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