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Hepaticas and Moorcroft Pottery: ‘Ashwood Medal of Honour’
The ‘Ashwood Medal of Honour’ vase celebrates the achievements of nursery owner John Massey, who in 2010 was awarded the Victoria Medal of Honour by the Royal Horticultural Society for his services to horticulture. John has achieved 50 consecutive RHS Gold Medals for a diverse range of specialist genera and is one of the UK’s leading experts on hepaticas, so it is no surprise that this beautiful design by Emma Bossons features the hepatica flower.
The ‘Ashwood Medal of Honour’ vase is part of an important collection The Circles of Life launched by Moorcroft Pottery in 2011 to mark the 25 year anniversary of Hugh Edward’s leadership of Moorcroft’s Pottery, a period that has seen the company transformed into the vibrant art and design studio that it is today. Each of the 25 designs has a special significance for Hugh and none more so than the ‘Ashwood Medal of Honour’ vase.
We will let Hugh’s words speak for themselves:
‘Emma set to work and designed Ashwood Medal of Honour and, in so doing, acknowledged her love of the hepatica flower, recognised my own profound respect for one of the finest independent Moorcroft retailers in the United Kingdom today and used it as a means of saying ‘thank you’ for the huge help given by John Massey and Ashwood Nurseries to Moorcroft designers over the years.
I am proud to see ‘Ashwood Medal of Honour’ standing among some of the finest designs ever launched at Moorcroft on a single occasion.’
‘Ashwood Medal of Honour’ is a numbered edition on the 102/7 shape vase and is 7 inches(18cm) in height.
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