Blue Vine Nostalgia

Within the Moorcroft Museum archives lies a truly exceptional blue-on-blue Hazeldene vase dating to 1905. It holds a fabulous crisp, clear decoration with multiple trees and clouds in a landscape setting with only shades of blue used to create the artwork. Blue Vine Nostalgia has been designed to recreate this gentle depiction of our natural world and holds a cluster of grapes hanging from a pagoda-shaped lidded jar complete with long stem. The result: an utterly elegant design where cool pale and deep blues contrast like the fruity waves of a fine vintage on your tongue.

Whilst succulent vines are the darling of still-life paintings, symbolising life's transience, grapes and vines also offer an abundance of other themes in art, including sensuality, fruitfulness, kingship, riches, fertility and as for wine itself, new beginnings and sacred covenants. The representation of vines in Moorcroft art pottery go back to some of William Moorcroft's earliest and most iconic designs: Grapes for Liberty & Co in 1906; and his iconic Pomegranate, featuring succulent, rich, burgundy grapes - one of the first designs to flow out of our colossal bottle oven in 1914 with a band of fruit against a mottled green and ochre ground.

Designed by Kerry Goodwin

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Size | Height 15cm