old fashioned roses oval dish
Full blown blooms of old-fashioned shrub roses adorn vases and an oval dish.
Vases
Old-fashioned English shrub roses are amongst my favourite flowers. Their full flat blooms with densely packed petals are intense and beautiful. The Charles de Mills rose has confetti like petals forming into whorls and is perfect for portraying in porcelain. The clay is rolled out thinly, rolled several times more, then modelled into flower heads and leaves. Hundreds of tiny layers can be used to make a single large flower. Flower heads are attached to elegant vases. Fully glazed and waterproof, wash by hand.
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Oval Dish
The oval dish is made by throwing an open cylinder on the wheel then gently squeezing it into shape and adding a base. Two full flat flower heads are attached before bisque firing. Aftewards the dish is fully glazed and high fired to make it waterproof and washable by hand. The distictive shallow oval form can be used decoratively or functionally - it looks lovely heaped with white cotton wool balls on a bedroom dressing table.
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