Vault/2013
Clarice Cliff: The Art of Bizarre
27 July 2013 - 21 September 2013
Clarice Cliff is recognised as the leading designer of commercial British ceramics of the interwar period. In 1932, a few years after the launch of her Bizarre wares it was said “There is nothing more typical of this age of simplicity in design than Clarice Cliff’s work and it is safe to say that early twentieth century design will be inseparately associated in the minds of collectors of the future with the name of Clarice Cliff.”
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Bows, Shanks and Blades
15 June 2013 - 20 July 2013
Collector Yvonne Marsh estimates that she possesses about 3000 pairs of scissors. Her collecting has been encouraged by her parents, a husband who collected bladed instruments – knives and swords – and a passion for embroidery, which fuels her other principal collecting interest, the tools and instruments associated with needlework.
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