While I get inoculated this week, I thought we'd go back a bit really to something that is very much "in the family" which is ceramics and a trip to the museum of a major player, Spode.
Some exhibits were in glass cases, probably as well as a few years ago a car plowed into the front of the museum and damaged a number of Willow Pattern plates.
A number of these pieces show gold banding which was applied by hand after an apprenticeship and being approved to use the very expensive gold gilding which was something my late nan did for a good many years.
When people think of pottery, thoughts tend to run to cups, saucers and plates but they need not and here is a fox which could of been bought for a cool £150.
That plate design is "Chocolate Berry" sat by two willow pattern cups and saucers that before the guided tour we consumed with hand poured tea from leaves with biscuits.
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