Archaic style to modern taste when it comes to Clarice Cliff
The Clarice Cliff, Art Deco & Design auction at Woolley & Wallis (26% buyer’s premium) in Salisbury on March 20 included this rare 10in (25cm) vase, shape no 375, decorated in the Archaic pattern mirroring a capital design from a temple in Luxor.
Dated c.1929, Clarice is thought to have copied it from Owen Jones’ Grammar of Ornament published …