Collection: Landscape Blue Multicolor - W.R. Midwinter

Landscape. Even the name tells you what to expect, and then the pattern gives you more than you were expecting.

W.R. Midwinter made Landscape on sturdy English earthenware out of Burslem, Staffordshire, from at least the early 1920s through most of the twentieth century. It is a transferware pattern in the oldest tradition: a garden scene with a columned stone rotunda, a bridge over still water, figures who have all the time in the world, and a border of scrolling flowers and roses that manages to be ornate without being fussy. The multicolor version adds hand-filled greens and warm reds to the engraved black outlines, and something about that combination, the precision of the engraving against the softness of the colour, makes it feel less like tableware and more like a small painting that someone decided to eat dinner from.

Each pendant starts with a genuine fragment of reclaimed Midwinter Landscape earthenware. We choose each piece for what the cut caught: the arch of the bridge, the line of trees, the couple mid-stroll, a rose from the border. Set in hypoallergenic aluminum, finished in gold or silver, with a hand-formed wire bale at the top. No two are the same.

The garden is still there. It just lives somewhere smaller now.