~ Pair Of First Quality Moorcroft Pottery Queens Choice Pattern Candlesticks ~
The tube-lined pieces have painted and impressed marks to the base and are dated for 2000.
~ Moorcroft Queen's Choice ~
It is beyond doubt that Emma Bossons’ Queen’s Choice design is not only one of the two longest-running Moorcroft designs, the longest-running design being Anna Lily, by Nicola Slaney, in the historic art pottery’s illustrious history but it is also considered to be Moorcroft’s trademark design, synonymous with all that is Moorcroft and holding our hope for a fruitful future. In short, this design may be said to be the greatest Moorcroft design of all time.
Inspired by Shakespeare's play A Mid-Summer Night's Dream, every fruit mentioned by Shakespeare’s Queen of The Fairies, Titania, in Act 3, Scene 1, is found in the design. Titania orders her retinue of fairy attendants to wait on her new lover Bottom. They are commanded to be courteous to him and bring him all the treasures of the wood. These include fruits, honey, beeswax candles, and butterfly wings to shade his sleeping eyes from the moonbeams. The Fairy Queen is smitten by Bottom, who is to receive the royal treatment only by the act of magic, a spell cast by Oberon, King of the Fairies. Titania declares, 'Be kind and courteous to this gentleman; Hop in his walks and gambol in his eyes; Feed him with apricots and dewberries; with purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries...'.
~ Condition ~
Please refer to the images for the condition. They are free from chips and cracks with crazing to the glaze.
