Collection: Centennial Rose

Canada turned one hundred in 1967, and Royal Albert did what English potteries do best. They put it on china.

Centennial Rose was created specifically for the anniversary, a full pattern on luminous white bone china with gold-edged scalloped rims. Deep salmon roses, full and layered, clustered across the Montrose shape alongside green foliage and that particular warm gold that Royal Albert always got exactly right. It went into production for Canada's birthday and stayed there for fourteen years, right through to 1981. People built sets slowly, adding pieces across the seasons, the way a celebration becomes part of ordinary life before you notice it has.

We find these pieces now, cups and plates that lived in the good cabinet, brought out carefully for the occasions that deserved it and kept safely through the decades that followed. Each pendant begins with a carefully chosen fragment of genuine Centennial Rose bone china, selected for the way those salmon roses fall in the frame, the way the gold catches the light, the particular arrangement of blooms that makes this piece its own. Set in hypoallergenic aluminum, finished in gold or silver, with a hand-formed wire bale at the top. No two are the same.

A pendant from a pattern made for a birthday. Wear it on yours, or give it to someone who deserves something this considered.

Browse the Centennial Rose collection and find the one that's been waiting.