Sale Moorcroft The Potter’s Garden Vase 93/10 – Ltd Ed 35 Moorcroft

Moorcroft The Potter’s Garden Vase

2021 R.H.S Fiora Bottan Collection

Designer: Nicola Slaney

Limited Edition of 35

Shape: 93/10

Dimensions: H 25 x W 9 x D 9 cm

RHS Fiori Bottan Collection

A collection of 45 original watercolours on vellum from an album entitled ‘Fiori Bottan’ depicting cultivated plants including daffodils, anemones irises, tulips and lilies has this year inspired Moorcroft designer, Nicola Slaney.  ‘Fiori Bottan’ dates from the seventeenth century and the album is Italian but the artist is unknown.  It is also a mystery how the album and the original watercolours came to be in the RHS Lindley Collections but thanks to its careful preservation, the watercolours, and Moorcroft designs they have inspired, can be enjoyed by a new generation.

The Potter’s Garden.

For as long as she could remember, Moorcroft designer, Nicola Slaney, had always seen herself as an artist, or more accurately, a potter’s artist – the first stage in her pursuit of excellence as a ceramic artist.  A watercolour was one thing and a ceramic design taken from that watercolour was very much another. In truth, the whispers she received from the lost watercolourist from Italy told only part of the story of an Italian garden.

 Her choice of the elegant 93/10 shape helped bring subtle beauty to the image with snowflakes lowering their heads as if in homage to what grew above them; her two narcissus flower heads were allowed to keep their ivory white petals and soft golden trumpet centres – all designed to transform the original watercolour into an astonishingly attractive work of ceramic art.