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OBERON

Moorcroft Vase
Designed by
Rachel Bishop

Moorcroft Pottery
Stoke-On-Trent, England

Approximate Dimensions:
8" (20.32 cm) Tall
2" (5.08 cm) Rim Diameter
2.5" (6.35 cm) Base Diameter
 
©1993; Made in 2001 according to the Leaf cyphermark on the bottom of the vase. Painter was Mary Etheridge "ME."

Oberon was one of Moorcroft's best selling designs. Designer Rachel Bishop was inspired by the words of King Oberon from "A Midsummer's Night's Dream" and incorporated all the flowers from the following verse:

I know a bank where the wild thyme blows
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine
With sweek musk-roses and with eglantine...
{Street, 1997, pp. 65-66}.



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