A RARE recorded interview with Staffordshire’s famous potter Clarice Cliff will be heard for the first time at a Stourbridge auction and exhibition.
Fieldings Auctioneers is hosting the auction - the first official large-scale Clarice Cliff Collectors Club to be held outside London - at noon on Saturday May 31; and it is being preceeded by [...]

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A former public school art teacher duped auction houses into selling fake antique pots he made in his shed.
He made dozens of bowls and vases that he stamped with his own version of the potters’ seal to make them appear genuine. He then convinced auctioneers, including Christie’s and Bonhams, to offer them for sale.
Bonhams unwittingly [...]

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