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Four Pyrex Tableware mugs/cups with turquoise stripes - they're super adorable!
In great condition, one has a missing smudge of turquoise.
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On Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt the former studio house and spiritual centre of the artists’ colony, the “Ernst-Ludwig House”, created 1901 by Joseph Maria Olbrich, is today a museum that presents fine and decorative art from the members of the artists’ colony.
Source: artnouveau-net.eu website
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On Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt the former studio house and spiritual centre of the artists’ colony, the “Ernst-Ludwig House”, created 1901 by Joseph Maria Olbrich, is today a museum that presents fine and decorative art from the members of the artists’ colony.
Source: artnouveau-net.eu website
This wonderful teapot, teacup, saucer and plate are painted in the Autumn Crocus pattern created by British ceramic industrial artist Clarice Cliff (1899 - 1972) as part of her everyday “Globe” shape tableware range produced by Wilkinson’s Pottery in Burslem, Newport in the late 1920s. Autumn Crocus is a simple, hand painted pattern of crocus flowers in orange, blue and purple, each flower being constructed with confident upward strokes. Then green leaves were added by holding the piece upside down and painting thin lines amongst the flowers. Being made from individual brushstrokes, the Autumn Crocus pattern was clearly completely hand-painted, and the vibrant colours instantly attracted large sales. With a back stamp from 1928, these items come from the Bizarre range. The teapot is in near mint condition and appears never to have been used as it has a spotless interior, has no cracks in the glazing and only a few paint chips. The trio is in equally good condition, with only a few paint chips and no crazing to the glaze.
Private collection.
Autumn Crocus is one of the most admired and collected Bizarre patterns designed by Clarice Cliff. Originally introduced in 1928, the pattern features two solid bands in brilliant orange, thought to represent the sun and earth. Hand-painted on glaze, Autumn Crocus was available in the standard colour mix of blue, orange and purple, but was also available in two other colourways; blue and purple. It was applied to every shape. Many variations of the Crocus pattern were introduced after its initial popularity including Spring Crocus (1933 – 1968), Peter Pan Crocus (1932) and Sungleam Crocus (1935). Clarice Cliff’s bright, Jazz Age pottery was inexpensive and intended for everyday use by the average middle-class family. Yet this accessibility is what has makes her work so very collectable and expensive today, as many pieces were used until they broke, and many surviving items have cracks, chips, repairs and signs of use or are missing lids or other pieces to make them complete.
Clarice Cliff was an English ceramic industrial artist active from 1922 to 1963.
A rather kitsch cup with a portrait of Joseph Stalin, given to me by a friend who recently completed a trip on the Trans Siberian Express.