Clarice Cliff Bizarre 'Islands' Pattern Dinner Service (69 pieces)
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A Clarice Cliff Bizarre 'Islands' pattern part dinner service, comprising nine each dinner plates, entree plates and salad plates, six bread and butter plates, nine soup bowls, a covered soup tureen and one other with cover missing, a butter dish, six tea cups and saucers, three coffee cups and saucers, a milk jug and saucer, three graduated oval platters and a fruit plate, each centred by a stylised cartouche showing an island and foliate motifs within pastel blue borders on a cream ground, blue factory marks and impressed underglaze 35 and diamond to reverse. (69)
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- Foliate - Decorated with leaves or leaf-like forms.
- Cartouche - An ornamental panel in the form of of a shield, oval or rectangular scroll with curling edges. It may be carved into the back of a chair or the top of a sideboard, or present on a piece of silver or jewellery, and contain the initials of the original owner, heraldic symbols, or some other inscription, such as the details of a presentation.
In ceramics the term defines the central area of a vase or similar with a decorative border in one of the shapes above, into which a decorative scene or figures have been painted.
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