Moorcroft A Rose For Love Vase Treasures of Childhood retired 1991

retired 1991

Lumpi makes a true friend and is very playful

On the reverse of the tankard Sir Winston Churchill

Here a colourful sweet pea array clamber with swirling tendrils into a soporific coral-bed bloom of maroon

On a snowy morning the handsome fieldfare songbird

Moorcroft A Rose For Love Vase Treasures of Childhood retired 1991Moorcroft designer, Emma Bossons was inspired by a hand coloured engraving of a rose styled as Rosa centifolia holosericea from Henry Cranke Andrewss Roses: or a Monograph of the Genus Rosa Volume 1 (London, 1805 1828). For our sheer delight, Emma has woven this striking rose with large, truly single flowers, which are a strong shade of vermilion red, a colour family and pigment most often used between antiquity and the 19th century from the powdered