Clarice Cliff sample in the 1930s) for a staggering £3000. In May 2009 an eighteen-inch charger in the "May Avenue" pattern sold for £20,500 at Fielding's auctioneers. On 2 August 2009 Will Farmer of the BBC "Antiques Roadshow" and members of the original Clarice Cliff Collectors Club unveiled three plaques commemorating Clarice Cliff's life and work in the Potteries. These were on her birthplace, Meir Street, Tunstall, her second home on Edwards Street, Tunstall and the site of Newport Pottery by the canal in Burslem where her Bizarre ware was decorated. These were filmed by BBC television for showing on a special
Clarice Assad 1993, Clarice and her younger brother Rodrigo Assad moved to France to live with their father, in a home he shared with his second wife and their child Julia. Clarice studied piano and improvisation privately with Natalie Fortin, a professor from Le Conservatoire national Supérieur de Paris, and benefited also from her father's mentorship, composing and arranging numerous pieces. This was a prolific period, though short lived amidst a turbulent time. Mr. Assad's wife, who had been battling cancer, died a year later at 38. Clarice returned to Brazil with her brother. In Rio de Janeiro, between 1995-1997, Assad acted