Collection: Willow

Willow is not a pattern. It is a scene.

The willow tree. The three-arched bridge. The boat on the water, the pavilion, the birds. English potters were putting this image on earthenware as early as 1790, and nearly every pottery in Staffordshire copied it within a generation. No meaningful copyright existed to stop them. So Willow went everywhere, onto plates and cups and serving dishes in homes across Britain, Canada, and beyond, made by dozens of potteries over two centuries, each version slightly different, each one unmistakably the same.

The legend, the one about the mandarin's daughter and the lovers transformed into doves, was almost certainly written after the pattern was already popular. A beautiful story invented to explain a beautiful thing. That's its own kind of history.

The pieces we find are blue and white, the transfer print crisp and clear even on china well over a hundred years old. Manufacturer unknown on most of them. Just the pattern, exactly as it has always been, the willow curving over the bridge, the birds in the corner of the sky where they have always lived.

Each pendant captures a fragment of the scene. The bridge. The branches. The birds. A piece of the most reproduced ceramic design in English history, cut carefully and set into a hypoallergenic aluminum frame, finished in gold or silver, with a hand-formed wire bale at the top. No two are the same. The scene shifts with every cut.

Browse the Willow collection and find your piece of it.