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Welcome to Moorcroft Pottery Limited Editions
You only have to hold in your hands any one of the following works to realise why they are limited editions. The color, detail, design, and size set these pieces apart form the rest of the Moorcroft Pottery. They will be prized indeed in years to come.
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Aquitaine Vase
Limited Edition of 250
Shape 805/9
Height: 9 inches
Artist: Emma Bossons
Status: In Stock
Aquitaine is an area of south west France which runs the length of Atlantic Ocean coastline from the point where the sea and the River Gironde meet at Verdon-sur-Mer, north of Bordeaux down to the Pyrénées Mountains at Hendaye in the Basque Country on the Spanish border. It is an area of natural beauty, where gentle rivers run gently to the sea and the cool shaded woods are home to pure white doves.
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Shape 398/14
Limited Edition of 350
Height: 14 inches
Artist: Sarah-Brummell-Bailey
Status: In Stock
'Blakeney Mallow' has been drawn in the ornamental 'Art Nouveau' style that flourished between about 1890 and 1910 throughout Europe and the United States. The distinguishing characteristic of Art Nouveau is its undulating, asymmetrical line, often taking the form of flower stalks and buds, vine tendrils, insect wings, and other delicate and sinuous natural objects.
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Chapada - Toucan
Shape 46/10
Limited Edition of 350
Height: 10 inches
Artist: Sian Leeper
Status: In Stock
This design is part of a pair of vases featuring Brazilian birds. The first vase has a Red-billed Toucan, a Scarlet Tanager and a Blue-crowned Trogon. The seconds vase has a Sun Conure, a Purple Honeycreeper and a Swallow-tailed Manakin. Chapada dos Veadeiros is the name of a Brazilian National Park famous for its wildlife. A region of outstanding beauty where the vegetation is as rich as the exotic and rare birds that inhabit it.
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Chapada - Sun Conure
Shape 46/10
Limited Edition of 350
Height: 10 inches
Artist: Sian Leeper
Status: In Stock
This design is part of a pair of vases featuring Brazilian birds. The first vase has a Red-billed Toucan, a Scarlet Tanager and a Blue-crowned Trogon. This vase has a Sun Conure, a Purple Honeycreeper and a Swallow-tailed Manakin. Chapada dos Veadeiros is the name of a Brazilian National Park famous for its wildlife. A region of outstanding beauty where the vegetation is as rich as the exotic and rare birds that inhabit it.
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Elounda Vase
Shape 576/9
Limited Edition of 350
Height: 9 inches
Artist: Alicia Amison
Status: In Stock
Elounda is the first catalogue limited edition pottery design by Alicia and is named after a small Cretian fishing village that looks across the Mediterranean Sea to the distant mountains of scattered Greek islands. Famous for its apricots that grow in the warm maritime climate, Elounda is surrounded by apricot trees with their delicate blossom and tasty, orange fruits.
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Isle Royale Vase
Shape 18/16
Limited Edition of 100
Height: 16 inches
Artist: Anji Davenport
Status: October Delivery
Inspiration for Isle Royale came to designer Anji Davenport from artist Robert Bateman's 1955 painting - Descending Shadows Timber Wolves - in which a pack of seven gray wolves are seen emerging from the depths of a dark, snow covered fir forest. This superb painting spurred Anji to discover more about wolves, animals that Bateman considers to be - possibly the single most popular of wildlife art in North America-. Wolves first colonized Lake Superiors Isle Royale National Park in the late 1940s, after a few had walked to the island across a stretch of the lake often frozen over by the iron-cold winter frosts. During the millennium year, the wolf population swelled to twenty-four, although a recent, dramatic decline has reduced the population to a mere fourteen
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