Ceramics pioneer Clarice Cliff honoured with blue plaque 125 years after birth

Ceramics designer Clarice Cliff will be honoured with a blue plaque at her former Stoke-on-Trent home.

A relative of Cliff, Sheila Jeffries, said the event feels “like a birthday” and she is “thrilled” it is happening for the designer, whose “talents were absolutely off the Richter scale”. She also said that she was “very sad” that the industry of pottery had declined in Staffordshire but she remains “immensely proud” of her family heritage and the artist.

Her talent become noticed and she went on to become the art director of Newport Pottery and AJ Wilkinson, one of the Staffordshire potteries, in 1931.The BBC’s The Repair Shop ceramics expert Kirsten Ramsay said: “As a trailblazing pottery designer, her pioneering contributions not only revolutionised the industry but also paved the way for women in the field.

Cliff’s turning point came in 1918 when she joined AJ Wilkinson’s Royal Staffordshire Pottery in Middleport, Burslem, and was noticed by Colley Shorter, who went on to become her husband and the company’s director. She married Colley Shorter in 1940 following the death of his wife and sold her company in 1964 to Midwinter Pottery and retired.

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