The TV series "The Great Pottery Throwdown" involves twelve amateur potters competing against one another, with judges Keith Brymer Jones (who is most famous for his legendary waterworks) and newcomer Sue Pryke throwing increasingly obscure challenges at the contenders. A Tea Set made by Mary...
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Our dear friends in the Harvey Nichols food department have once again given Mary Rose a fantastic prominence in their stores leading up to Easter. They have ordered egg cups in black and white designs which are being sold in a presentation box already loaded...
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The Pineapple is also known as the Queen of Fruits - maybe because they have crowns of sorts! So what better inspiration to give way to a magical piece of pottery...
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One of Mary Rose’s little projects this last month was a Pale Rose Pink Dinner Set for a wonderful lady in Tennessee. There were sets of 8 Dinner Plates and Side Plates in a selection of varieties on the theme with the pink and the mother of...
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Mary Rose’s latest Rose Encrusted Mirror…. We made and showed a few large mirrors with ceramic flowers overlaid onto their wooden frames last year. This year a customer who has been appreciating Mary Rose’s work for many years contacted us to say that her 1990s mirror was...
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Each of the beads that cloak the arms of her chandeliers are rolled out of clay, decorated and glazed individually. This chandelier is to be a "tea set" and having already thrown the central pot and the six cups and saucers, our favourite artist will...
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This is another private commission from the last month. A couple in Maine are building a new house and imagining what kind of glorious decoration will make a statement on their new blank canvas. Hooray they opted for Mary Rose Young. They had already collected...
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This exhibition of many worldwide artists’ teapots has started and it’s called “FestTeaVal” which coincidentally is the name of another festival happening this year in London. Here is a picture which we hope was taken before or after the crowds came flocking! You can see...
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The Turks and Caicos Islands are part of The West Indies and in the bad old days were known as a hideout for pirates and all their ill gotten treasure. Something of this yearn for decorative objects laden with gold still exists there...
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