'Archaic' a rare Clarice Cliff Bizarre vase, shape no.375, stepped flaring cylindrical body, painted

'Archaic' a rare Clarice Cliff Bizarre vase, shape no.375, stepped flaring cylindrical body, painted in shades of red, blue and yellow outlined in black, printed and painted factory marks, 25.5cm. high

Provenance

Private collection.

Literature

Richard Green and Des Jones, The Rich Designs of Clarice Cliff, Rich Designs, page 11 for an identical example illustrated

Leonard Griffin, Clarice Cliff The Art of Bizarre, Pavilion Books, page 50 for an identical example illustrated.

Catalogue notes

Clarice copied this design from a capital design seen on a temple in the oasis of Thebes. Clarice saw the design reproduced in a Grammar of Ornament by Owen Jones, published in 1856. This vase unusually has a painted Archaic mark and also the printed mark for the Temple at Thebes.