I had the wonderful opportunity to make a ring holder for Caryl, who is getting married shortly in a few weeks at Graydon Hall Manor. With a busy schedule of wedding plans and home renovations, Caryl and I were able to communicate back and forth over email. Caryl provided me with samples of her stationary and inspiration boards and this gave me an idea of what saucers to look for in regards to colour and style. Her overall colour scheme is robins egg blue/green with accents of yellow and gold.
Although her stationary has mint green, and the groomsmen have some blue, it is all within a soft pastel palette so it will all come together beautifully. Once I sent Caryl photos of various saucers ranging in color from mint green to soft aquas and blues, she had the hard job of picking just one — she thought they were all so beautiful! In the end, her final selection was a lovely pale blue saucer feature scalloped edges with a gold leaf garland in the center. The pattern of this saucer, called ‘Wyvern’, was manufactured by Foley in England, and based on the design and marking on the bottom, from the 1950’s.
Caryl mentioned in her email that this will be ‘such a wonderful piece to keep for her little girls and pass down — but sad that there is only one!’. Stay tuned to see pictures of the finished piece on her wedding day.
OK, I know it is Monday but I have this new idea and I am already a day behind!
Every Sunday I will be featuring a beautiful saucer out of my collection. I will try to provide as much information about it as I possibly can. The saucer will eventually be made into a stunning ring holder, but until then, it will be admired on my shelf with the rest of my saucer collection.
This saucer was manufactured by Coalport. Unfortunately, this beautiful design does not have a pattern name. I like it when there is a name because it usually hints to the design of the saucer and then it is easy to reference to it later. But if this saucer had a name, it would be something like ‘Meadow Birds’. What would you call it? I would love to know your ideas so please leave a comment below.
About the Company
Coalport is an English china manufacturer founded by John Rose (1772-1841) after he had trained as a potter in Caughley, Shropshire, under Thomas Turner, a potter with a revolutionary approach to making porcelain.
After the Great Depression, Coalport was sold to English china manufacturer Cauldron Works. In the end, this resulted in the closure of the Coalport factory. In 1967, Wedwood purchased Coalport. As a result, Coalport is now produced at the Wedgwood factory in the village of Barlaston, Staffordshire, in the Potters region of England.
