Fabulous Vintage Midwinter Stonehenge Coffee Pot and Milk Jug in the Caprice Pattern (Spanish Garden) Designed by Jessie Tate, Excellent Condition

I am continuing my effort to downsize as unfortunately we will have to move all our belongings into temporary storage due to builders carrying out major remediation works to our brand new home.
I’m trying to minimize the pain by reducing the amount of packing required to be done!

For Sale here is a Fabulous Vintage Midwinter Stonehenge Coffee Pot and Milk Jug in the Caprice Pattern (Spanish Garden) Designed by Jessie Tate

Included in this set are a coffee pot, and matching. The coffee pot and teapot were very similar in shape and size, but I think this is the coffee version, although it could be used for either (but maybe not loose leaved tea, as it is a coffee pot, with no strainer holes on the inside of the spout)

Both items are in excellent vintage condition, with no chips, cracks, or pattern loss. Being stoneware, they have a similar weight to Denby and are as durable and long lasting.

The coffee pot stands just under 8 inches/ 20 cm tall. The milk jug stands 3.75 inches/9.5cm tall and

Priced and selling as a pair only.

The History bit!!!: In the 1950s, Midwinter, under the leadership of the director Roy Midwinter, became one of the leading innovators in British tableware production. A large part of this was due to the noted ceramicists and designers who worked for the pottery, including Jessie Tait, Terence Conran, Hugh Casson, John Russell and Peter Scott.

Spanish Garden was Midwinter's most popular design of the sixties and is a very collectable pattern still today. Introduced in 1966, it was in production for 16 years. Designed by their greatest and most consistent designer, Jessie Tait, it’s almost psychedelic swirling leaves took its inspiration from some textiles and heralded the start of the pottery's flirtation with flower power.

Spanish Garden was first produced on a more modern shape for the sixties - designed by the Marquis of Queenbury in collaboration with Midwinter's owner, Roy Midwinter. “Fine Tableware”, as the shape was known, was meant to compete with the bone china being produced by other potteries and move away from their flowing lines of the fifties.

In addition, the Spanish Garden pattern was also produced from 1966 to 1982 on the Stonehenge shape, and where the pattern was called Caprice. Designed also by Jessie Tait, the pattern features the characteristic speckled stoneware body of the range, decorated with a bold floral band in blue, purple, and green, and finished with a green trim. Part of the wider Stonehenge series, which also included designs such as Sun, Moon, Earth, and Creation, Caprice reflected the modern, decorative style that defined Midwinter’s tableware during the late 1960s and 1970s.

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