'Sliced Fruit' a unique Clarice Cliff Bizarre large floor vase

'Sliced Fruit' a unique Clarice Cliff Bizarre large floor vase, painted in colours between orange and yellow bands, printed factory marks, 70cm. high

Provenance

Clarice Cliff 4th November 1993, Christie's South Kensington, lot 247.

Private collection.

Literature

Richard Green and Des Jones, The Rich Designs of Clarice Cliff, Rich Designs, page 182.

Andrew Casey 20th Century Ceramic Designers in Britain ACC books, page 80.

Clarice Cliff Collector's Club Review, 'Clarice Cliff Giants' by Len Griffin, October 1989, discusses a comparable example of this large vase decorated in the Branch & Squares pattern which was exhibited at L'Odeon's Clarice Cliff exhibition loaned by Midwinter and now in the Wedgwood collection. after Midwinter closed in 1986.

Exhibited

Clarice Cliff Centenary Exhibition, Yorkshire, 1999, catalogue number 17.