MADAM – It was good to see Clarice Cliff featured in ATG No 2383. As mentioned, the pottery has had its ups and downs over the years and in any case ‘Clarice’ has always been a little ‘Marmite’.
Jill (my wife) and I had a lot of fun collecting her abstract designs in the 1980s-90s and it was the fashion at the time that if you found a new design you got to name it. The ‘Sunspots’ pattern mentioned in the article was one of our finds, as was ‘Cafe’.
In those pre-internet days it meant searching anywhere and everywhere for a find but it was very rewarding when you got a hit. Viewing the Christie’s auctions with Mark Wilkinson and Michael Jeffery was always a buzz too.