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| Moorcroft Vase | Moorcroft Pottery Duet Vase
Moorcroft Pottery is one of the few remaining hand made pieces of collectable art available. Every piece of pottery is slightly different and the Moorcroft Stamps on the base identify the designer, the year it was made, the year of the design, the person who hand painted the piece and the person who tube-lined the piece. Moorcroft Pottery is also unique as it is cast and decorated before it is fired, and then it is glazed and fired for a second time.
Height 17cm
Designer Nicola Slaney
Nicola became famous as the designer who witnessed a sell-out in six weeks of her millennium 50-piece limited edition, Jerusalem, at eye watering retail prices. Another Nicola Slaney design, Anna Lily, a Moorcroft best-selling range, is still in the 2002 catalogue. An expert in choice limited editions, and with her Hellebore and Trillium Nivale ranges still highly collectable on both sides of the Atlantic, Nicola's reputation grows by the year.
History
Moorcroft was originally founded in 1897 as a studio within a large ceramic company in Stoke on Trent. Designs came from 24 year old William Moorcroft who personalised each piece of pottery produced with his own signature or initials. Moorcroft Pottery soon moved to Sandbach Road where it still is today. Backed by Liberty, the famous London store, Moorcroft went from strength to strength and has recently grown internationally, thanks to the annual auction at Christies. Despite the growth of Moorcroft Pottery as an International Brand, the designs and process of producing beautiful and unique Art Pottery has not changed over the last 100 years.
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