Sale Moorcroft Anjana Vase 68/12 – Ltd Ed 5 Moorcroft

Moorcroft Anjana Vase

2025 Spring Catalogue – March in the UK

Designer: Emma Bossons FRSA

Limited Edition of 5 Only

Shape: 68/12

Dimensions: H 30 x W 20 x 20cm

Purchase Brand New from Moorcroft Pottery

This vase is inspired by an en plein air painting in the Tate Gallery, Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose dated 1885–6, by John Singer Sargent, which saw two children, Dolly and Polly, lighting lantern. The oil artist worked hard to arrange his easel and paints, pose the girls beforehand, and wait for the perfect moment to paint – when the light held that magical aura of precious twilight. There were only a few minutes each evening where the light was right.

Through this painting, Emma was able to see the girls transform into fairies, and fire lilies whisper with their flames of bright yellow and Seville-orange and reddish-brown dots like large gramophones, their brass and grains of wood illuminated by the golden glow of lanterns. The result is the vision Sargent may have seen – an Eden where fairies are brave enough to emerge in the shadows of twilight. Just like Sargent, Emma uses her creativity to ensure that the age of innocence is grasped tightly. It should be said that Anjanas are female fairy spirits dwelling near bodies of water, who, in truth, may have enchanted Sargent as he gazed at lanterns over the River Thames in precious childhood hours.