Collection: Winsome

Winsome. Even the name has a lightness to it.

Royal Albert produced this pattern from 1966 to 2001, thirty-five years of small pink roses and sprays of blue forget-me-nots on luminous white bone china. The Montrose shape, fluted and familiar, with gold trim at the rim. It was never a bold pattern. It was the kind of china that sat on a table and made everything around it feel a little more considered.

We find these pieces now, cups and plates that have lived full lives, and we see what they still carry. Each pendant begins with a carefully chosen fragment of genuine Royal Albert Winsome china, selected for the way those small roses fall, the way the forget-me-nots cluster, the particular arrangement captured in that one piece. 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. They can't be.

The word winsome comes from the Old English for joy. The pattern knew what it was named for. Wearing a piece of it is a small and pleasant thing, easy to love, easy to carry forward.

Browse the Winsome collection and find the one that catches you.