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SUSIE COOPER (Crown Works , Burslem, Stoke On Trent, England) TEA SERVICE Inc TEAPOT, SUGAR, MILK, BREAD & BUTTER PLATE, CUPS & SAUCERS IN THE SEA ANEMONE DESIGN. (Susan Vera Cooper OBE (29 October 1902 – 28 July 1995) was a prolific English ceramic designer working in the Stoke-on-Trent pottery industries from the 1920s to the 1980s. Born in Burslem, Staffordshire, she was the youngest of seven children. From an early age she developed an interest in drawing, and began her art education by attending night classes at the Burslem School of Art. In 1922 she joined the ceramics firm A. E. Gray & Co. Ltd, partially as a means to gain entry to the Royal College of Art.)