Amongst Mary Rose earliest designs of roses, stripes and dots there were two hectic Bird Designs...
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There’s a new Yellow in the colour department here at the pottery. Maybe its most prominent appeal is how unlikely a ceramic colour it is…usually one expects a typical warm Cornflower Yellow to be painted onto a piece of pottery but this one belongs in...
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We showed you the Pike House in last month's Newsletter...
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Mary Rose’s Black and White designs have often concentrated on stripes or dots and the more figurative type of designs. She has dabbled with two rose designs but last month she developed a new black and white daisy design which is striking to say the...
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Holly is such a generic Christmas design that I can walk around a Festive Shopping Centre and not even notice it. It's so great when Mary Rose adopts a design that’s already been done to death and her positive touch makes it magical again. Her...
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For the whole of November Mary Rose has been aware of a manifestation of mice in her kitchen…. I never realised before but apparently this is precisely the time of year that many other households suffer the same …it’s called The Rodent Season! Our little...
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Easter in the West End is beginning to take shape already! I don’t envy buyers who work so far in advance that they must imagine what the zeitgeist will be in three months’ time, but they always do….maybe their decisions simply become the zeitgeist. Anyway Harvey Nichols...
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It’s such a great name… it is a reinvention of her rose design that Mary Rose thought would look particularly good on plates and bowls…the coloured outer has dots and gold and contrasts with the background colour of the centre. This piece is in fact...
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Our pest controller needs to be fired because the Bugs are Back…. Here is a pretty stunning Medium Crown Edged Serving Bowl which you’ll already be saying isn’t exactly “bugs” it’s more just Butterflies mixed with Petit Fleur (OK you’re right!) and it’s one of...
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We had one of those “spotting a MRY piece on TV” moments this week….. my daughter Matilda was watching Episode 1 Series 3 of Dexter and something she saw jerked her out of the fictional landscape she was inhabiting……it was a Medium Jug in New...
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