Moorcroft A Rose For Love Vase 2020 Catalogue Plump baby penguins huddle together

Plump baby penguins huddle together entangled in multicoloured festoon lights which hang precariously off party crowns and knitted scarves

Size 6 x 13

Whether in champagne

The coat is elaborately crafted – short at the snout

Moorcroft A Rose For Love Vase 2020 Catalogue Plump baby penguins huddle togetherMoorcroft designer, Emma Bossons was inspired by a hand coloured engraving of a rose styled as Rosa centifolia holosericea from Henry Cranke Andrewss Roses: or a Monograph of the Genus Rosa Volume 1 (London, 1805 1828). For our sheer delight, Emma has woven this striking rose with large, truly single flowers, which are a strong shade of vermilion red, a colour family and pigment most often used between antiquity and the 19th century from the powdered