15929996360001312637261000Standard Recordobject-74082170249433047715948502580001702494120499fitz-onlineadlib-object-74082https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/74082ea0f8af5-ca34-3c92-a372-5f30623eaff14referenceterm-42861adlib-term-428615b368285-f1a8-3dcf-a5b2-637fd3c3956cearthenwareDecorationreferenceterm-122641adlib-term-122641d5fb75d8-097d-3fd7-8e70-87e9d96d77f7glazingreferenceterm-115adlib-term-11594d65983-dea2-361b-b187-a968c98ab1d8NatureApplied ArtsEarthenware, glazed in matt apricot and green and painted with black enamel.Slip-cast earthenware, oval in plan with curved sides rising to a projecting fish-shaped rim with head, tail and fins serving as handles. Slightly domed oval cover with an inward curve at the head end, an upright fin slightly moulded to fit the thumb as handle, and an underside rim which fits into the dish. The lower exterior of the dish has five wavy lines, representing waves. The top of the rim and cover are moulded with scales, and the right end of the rim with the fish's mouth, eye and gill. The whole piece is covered in a matt, apricot glaze, with pale green glaze lightly applied over on fins and tail. The pupil of the eye is painted black. There are three spur marks on the base, and three on the underside of the cover. The underside of the dish is recessed and glazed.C.28 & A-19961accession numberC.28 & A-199674082priref74082urihttps://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/74082https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/74082near the foot-rim, on either sideon baseimpressedSHORTER / ENGLANDmarkon basegreyish-black backstampSHORTER & SON LTD./STOKE-ON-TRENT,/ENGLAND.markreferenceagent-149638adlib-agent-1496387376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8The Fitzwilliam MuseumGiven by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museumreferenceagent-149645adlib-agent-14964510925b71-6838-30f7-a8dd-b68a2afaa14dThe Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum199619961996givenEntry date: 1996-11-251935CE1935c. 1935circa1935productionreferenceagent-161174adlib-agent-161174bfb2ba0c-2ce7-3be3-9889-33cf511fcd14Shorter & Son Ltd.probablydesignerreferenceagent-28046adlib-agent-28046e3cea5cf-bf62-3d62-abaf-05e08891f3d7Cliff, ClariceAnother ‘fish set’ was produced by A J Wilkinson in the 1920s/30s. Marked as designed by Clarice Cliff, items in this series have a cream ground and are decorated with a relief, polychrome fish.Clarice Cliff (1899-1972) joined the pottery industry at 13, as a paintress. She joined A J Wilkinson in 1916 as a lithographer, rising to become a modeller and shape designer. After local evening classes, she studied at the Royal College of Art. In 1929, A J Wilkinson introduced her colourful Art Deco ‘Bizarre’ series, which established her as a well-known designer. In 1940 she married Arthur Colley Shorter, the managing director, and through him became a major shareholder in the family group, founded in the 1870s, which comprised Wilkinson, Newport Pottery and Shorter & Son. Her younger sister Dolly Cliff also worked at Wilkinson’s, supervising a team of specialist decorators, and some of her designs were later issued under Clarice’s name.‘Fish ware’, one of Shorter & Son’s most popular designs, was first introduced in the late 1920s or early 1930s. A version similar to the Fitzwilliam items, and attributed to Clarice Cliff, is illustrated in ‘The Quiver’, December 1936, described as ‘in a delicious matt cream glaze in pottery [with] only softly subdued turquoise fins as colour accent'. In the 1950s a high glaze version was produced, in various colourways.referenceterm-107318adlib-term-107318d27559f3-e90c-35cd-b7e4-46eaeb9ac52120th Centuryreferenceterm-110455adlib-term-1104555e7df88f-a1c2-39c8-a341-807aa544c9d0literalEnglandEnglandcountryliteralStaffordshireStaffordshireregionStoke-on-Trentreferenceterm-32652adlib-term-3265282d8ae3b-f165-395c-ba93-dfa1c282b7beglazereferenceterm-42861adlib-term-428615b368285-f1a8-3dcf-a5b2-637fd3c3956cearthenwareHeightcm11.0Lengthcm26.6Widthcm20.5referencemedia-41655adlib-media-41655b95c3411-a03b-398d-92ed-b9c31018a466jpegaa/aa6/C_28_20_26_20A_1996_281_29.jpg1heightpixels550widthpixels76016162744343301imagejpegaa/aa6/mid_C_28_20_26_20A_1996_281_29.jpg1heightpixels362widthpixels50016162744343301imagejpegaa/aa6/C_28_20_26_20A_1996_281_29.jpg1heightpixels550widthpixels76016162744343301imagejpegaa/aa6/preview_C_28_20_26_20A_1996_281_29.jpg1heightpixels181widthpixels25016162744343301image0media
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imagereferenceterm-133671adlib-term-133671f15cf456-ddda-3e03-8fc5-bf40555fd7bdserving dish and covertureenhistory notepurchased from N.J. Zolman, 19961referenceobject-74211adlib-object-742114d2c2a01-9e78-37dc-b18d-113f160acbd81reference1term-90921adlib-term-90921743cd8b7-9f18-3c65-9283-a5a0c17e68c4sauce boatsauce boat1referenceobject-74327adlib-object-7432718c1cc6b-1f32-3cac-ae7b-ef534360c92a1reference1term-113671adlib-term-1136716bd5f181-92fd-33c0-827d-26f1ef4a7339serving dishserving dish1referenceobject-74410adlib-object-74410c9295534-bcc9-3cb5-8c85-a88f8a29c3b11reference1term-90855adlib-term-90855b48207ec-774d-3e3e-8ab3-536996bc5dacdishdish1referenceobject-197253adlib-object-1972532ef32f50-23fc-397b-abbf-1a70c875e7071reference1term-90855adlib-term-90855b48207ec-774d-3e3e-8ab3-536996bc5dacdishdish1referenceobject-197254adlib-object-197254c3b788d3-d284-319c-aea0-d3e093e246c21reference1term-90855adlib-term-90855b48207ec-774d-3e3e-8ab3-536996bc5dacdishdish1referenceobject-197255adlib-object-197255bc7fa7c4-9977-3ae6-8821-9a2ecb6b62751reference1term-90855adlib-term-90855b48207ec-774d-3e3e-8ab3-536996bc5dacdishdish1referenceobject-197256adlib-object-1972569844e99d-7ab7-3640-ac67-5d2617f267eb1reference1term-90855adlib-term-90855b48207ec-774d-3e3e-8ab3-536996bc5dacdishdish1referenceobject-197257adlib-object-197257a15cd234-1f4c-3dfd-b2d6-4a5192fa1d391reference1term-90855adlib-term-90855b48207ec-774d-3e3e-8ab3-536996bc5dacdishdishreferenceagent-149638adlib-agent-1496387376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8The Fitzwilliam MuseumCf. fish set items in different colours and information about Cliff’s association with Shorter & Son, attribution of the ‘fish set’ to Cliff, and extract from 'The Quiver', 1936, fig.102. For the marks, see p. 117 G.pp. 43, 78, 122referencepublication-3560adlib-publication-3560acced503-d769-3e4a-ad6d-e59db6fe6225The Shorter Connection, A.J. Wilkinson, Clarice Cliff, Crown Devon, A Family Pottery 1874-1974Ref. for Clarice Cliff’s work for A J Wilkinson, with illustrations; for Dolly Cliff, see p.118; for Shorter & Son see p.247.113-129, 247referencepublication-7618adlib-publication-76188cf49e58-5dc1-360a-a994-1d23bd3efdc2Art Deco Ceramics in Britain,referencepublication-400001946adlib-publication-4000019462c5bac07-7f56-372a-ab47-2d34627d9e8dClarice CliffRef. for Clarice Cliff142-3referencepublication-7619adlib-publication-76192ca16b03-530c-37af-a5fe-37e5afcf2b4fArt Deco and Modernist CeramicsRef. re Clarice Cliff, with examples of her designs Figs.70-74.123-130referencepublication-2306adlib-publication-2306bd2c43e7-3e06-352f-9d45-078ae24994b7Potters and Paintresses: Women Designers in the Pottery Industry 1870-1955Ref for Clarice Cliff and Arthur Colley Shorter.83,307referencepublication-3367adlib-publication-3367d690c068-f9ae-39f7-b781-c471ea3065c7Encyclopaedia of British Art Pottery 1870-1920Ref. for A.J.Wilkinson.291referencepublication-2669adlib-publication-2669aa0d3603-2ba6-3e9d-90d9-3f0d5506093fEncyclopedia of Pottery and Porcelain, The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuriesreferenceterm-9020adlib-term-9020dd99d283-3cc6-3dd3-b6c2-448d7a05121dArt Decoanimalreferenceterm-106737adlib-term-1067373895059f-6d6f-37df-99e4-ff1b81f74086fishliteralfishfishreferenceterm-133671adlib-term-133671f15cf456-ddda-3e03-8fc5-bf40555fd7bdserving dish and coverserving dish and coverEarthenware, slip-cast and decorated with coloured glazes.referenceterm-120096adlib-term-1200967cc05306-f07e-3189-849f-52addb9e2ca7slip-casting'Fish set' serving dish and coverobject
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