Clearance Moorcroft Catch Me If You Can Vase 67/16 – Ltd Ed 5 Moorcroft

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Moorcroft Prestige Catch me if you Can Vase

2023 Prestige Collection 

Designer: Emma Bossons FRSA

Limited Edition of 5 only

Shape: 67/16

Dimensions: H 40 x W 31 x D 31 cm

Many people love black cats. Well, perhaps not if you are a fish and the black cat is hungry. It’s all very well if a designer has hidden you among a forest of colourful water plants and flowers, but cats have flexible claws. Those agile paws might reach over and catch you. However, cats hate water and even a wet paw may be too high a price to pay for trying to catch a little Japanese fighting fish.

Emma has taken care to ensure that the fish are camouflaged among the colorful plants and flowers. This provides an artistic touch to their watery home. The cat is fighting a losing battle, mostly with himself. The water is hatefully wet; the fighting fish have no wish to be caught and the swishing of their fins and tails tell of a worrying possibility of aggression and harm to a vulnerable, wet paw. Waterlilies grace the top of the design with a dragonfly or two flitting around as a captive audience to the drama. To ensure a little calm near the base of the vase, the designer has added colorful foliage and the black cat can do nothing other than acknowledge defeat.

Prestige designs are amongst the most sought after pieces to emerge from Moorcroft’s kilns, and have been ever since the first pieces were made over a century ago.  They are often pieces not only prestigious in size, but often with highly intricate, complex and captivating design subject matter.  Due to the very nature of their size, which can be up to almost 70cms in height, it can take many weeks for a single piece to be made from start to finish.