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of Newport Pottery, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. Cables: "Vitrified, Burslem". (1929)

Ditto Address. (1947)

1920 The Shorter family, owners of A. J. Wilkinson, took over a neighbouring pottery which came to be known as the Newport Pottery Co.

1925 Colley Shorter, much impressed by Clarice’s work, allowed her to experiment with old Newport Pottery shapes; she produced her new bold geometric designs, so expressive of the Art Deco age. Colley was a consummate salesman and it was he who conceived the idea of personalising her designs with her signature, thus launching one of the 20th century’s design legends.

c.1927 The pottery became the base for the decorating shop and, later, the design studio used by Clarice Cliff to develop Bizarre ware and the other designs.

1929 Listed Exhibitor - British Industries Fair. Manufacturers of Ironstone China and Vitrified Hotel Ware and Bizarre Ware. (Stand No. G.21) ^[1]

1941 The Newport Pottery business was concentrated (with that of the other Shorter factories) at the Royal Staffordshire Pottery, and the Newport Pottery buildings were diverted to war-time purposes.

1945 The Newport Pottery buildings were demolished; the business was operated from other Shorter factories.

1947 Advert in British Industries Fair Catalogue as Exhibiting Member of the British Pottery Manufacturers' Federation of Federation House, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. Composite Exhibit. (Pottery and Glassware Section - Olympia, Ground Floor, Stand No. A.1212) ^[2]

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 * 1920 The Shorter family, owners of [[A. J. Wilkinson]], took over a neighbouring pottery which came to be known as the [[Newport Pottery Co]].
+* 1925 Colley Shorter, much impressed by Clarice’s work, allowed her to experiment with old Newport Pottery shapes; she produced her new bold geometric designs, so expressive of the Art Deco age. Colley was a consummate salesman and it was he who conceived the idea of personalising her designs with her signature, thus launching one of the 20th century’s design legends.
 * c.1927 The pottery became the base for the decorating shop and, later, the design studio used by [[Clarice Cliff]] to develop ''Bizarre'' ware and the other designs.