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Moorcroft
asked us all if we'd like to produce a watercolour design for a
vase-shape...
and, for a suggested minimum donation of £5 per entry, which
went to CIN, three hundred of you did.
See winning sixty designs
Over sixty finally-finished vases from the winning designers
then went to a special auction, raising some £35,970 on the
night.
Top price was £2,500 - with eight of the 65 designs getting
bids of over £1,000 apiece.
It's believed dozens of Moorcroft collectors turned up for the chance
to buy some of these unique creations - thus pushing up the prices.
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Eric
Knowles
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The auction
itself
was run by Eric Knowles from the BBC's Antiques Roadshow on hand to
handle the formalities.
All proceeds from the auction will go to Children In Need, as will
the donations from the artists whose work was not, finally, successful
in getting to auction status.
Another £300 was raised in loose cash on the night.
Sixty vases
 The
top 60 designs were decided by Moorcroft’s Senior Designer Rachel
Bishop (pictured right).
She then supervised the making of sixty specially produced vases,
each one carrying one of the successful designs.
On thing though - they've made a pot of
money for Children In Need.
Get painting!
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at Moorcroft |
Moorcroft
got entries from schoolchildren as much as art students, from the
elderly as much as the young.
They also got entries from all over the country.
If you have any questions, please email Tim
Beech
Moorcroft
The Stoke on Trent firm Moorcroft is said by many to be the world’s
leading art pottery.
With some pieces already more than 106 years old, Moorcroft still
relies on the quality of its designs.
With a young Design Studio and a workforce with an average age of
less than 36, Moorcroft is among the leaders in the ceramic revival
in Britain today, resisting pressures to move production away to China
and the Pacific rim.
For more about Moorcroft, see the Moorcroft
website |
