Summerhouse
Cliff, Clarice
(Factory)
Plate, earthenware, round; the body of the plate is glazed yellow, the rim is coloured in bright orange with a slim ring of the glaze and black running around the middle of this section. The well of the plate shows the bottom of a stylised yellow flower with brightly coloured (pink, blue and black) foliage in the background, all on the backdrop of the yellow glaze.
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Details
Collection
Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Item Number
NMW A 39557
Historical Associations
Associated Person/Body: Nyman, Henry
Association Type: Private collector
Creation/Production
1899 - 1972
Apprenticed aged 13 to local potteries, before joining A J Wilkinson Royal Staffordhsire Potteries in 1916; trained in all aspects of pottery including design and modelling; under the tutelage of factory owner Colley Shorter, attended Sculpture course at Royal College of Art; went on to become Art Director of A J Wilkinson at age 31; devised Bizarre and Fantasque ranges, inspired by Cubism.
Role: Production
Role: Factory
Period: 1931
Acquisition
Gift, 20/10/2014
Measurements
Depth
(in): 9
Height
(in): 1
Depth
(cm): 23.5
Height
(cm): 2.5
Techniques
Enamelled
Decoration
Applied Art
Glazed
Decoration
Applied Art
Jiggered
Forming
Applied Art
Material
Earthenware
Location
In store
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