| WEDGWOOD | Potter noted for cream-coloured Queen's Ware and also Jasperware such as the Portland Vase and powder-blue stoneware pieces embossed with white cameos (8) |
| PALISSY | Huguenot potter noted for his "rustiques figulines" style - items decorated with casts of lizards, shellfish, snakes etc with vivid glazes (7) |
| NOCTURNE | I take a dim view reporting what someone once did to the Portland vase? |
| ARAN | Noted for cream knitwear, a group of three limestone islands off the west coast of Ireland (4) |
| DEVON | A county noted for cream teas (5) |
| VASE | With Wedgwood's jasperware "Portland" example and others in the chinoiserie style, a vessel for cut flowers such as a bough pot, potiche, tulipiere or rose bowl (4) |
| STOUT | Rex ___, author of mystery novels The Broken Vase and The Hand in the Glove (5) |
| REDON | French symbolist painter and pastelist whose pieces include The Buddha, Butterflies, Flowers in a Turquoise Vase and Coquille (5) |
| JOSIAH | English potter famed for his blue and white Jasperware (6, 8) |
| GOODS | Word for clothing, food, furniture, produce, wares and similar tangible commodities bought and sold (5) |
| VALISE | Left one in the vase and the bag (6) |
| MLS | Org. for the Portland Timbers and Seattle Sounders |
| MILDRED | Partners in freedom and marriage, John Ware and ___ Lewis |
| MAL | Prefix for "ware" and "function" |
| CLOVELLY | Village immortalised in Rex Whistler's design for Wedgwood's Queen's ware (8) |
| BLUE | Colour other than white of original Cornishware, vintage enamelware, ginger jars, willow patterns on crockery and Wedgwood's jasperware (4) |
| BLASTFURNACES | Forges vase and mug without cracks around the edge |
| CORNFLOWERS | They are blue in a vase and cream in a crop (11) |
| VACATES | A cat goes into the new vase... and moves out (7) |
| NEATEN | Tidy up the last bits of broken vase and aspidistra before 10 |