GUILD EXCLUSIVE 2010 The Royal Crown Derby magazine ISSUE 39 July 2010 Guild Duck and Duckling COLLECTOR Duckling Modelled by Hilary Walker, Designed by Jane James. Height 5.5cm Duck Modelled by Hilary Walker, Designed by Jane James. Length 15.5cm On joining the Guild or renewing your membership you will receive the delightful little Duckling paperweight as a complimentary gift A special welcome pack will contain your complimentary Guild Duckling paperweight and a wealth of information about our collectables Royal Crown Derby Headquarters 194 Osmaston Road, Derby, DE23 8JZ, England Tel: (01332) 712846 Fax: (01332) 712863 royalcrownderby.co.uk CONTENTS NEW PIECES New Pieces 2 - 7 New Exclusives 8 - 10 Osprey Visitor Centre News 11 Modelled by Donald Brindley This stunning new piece is once again a Local Interest 12 Designed by Tien Manh Dinh. successful collaboration between modeller Height: 15cm News / Events 13 - 14 Donald Brindley and designer Tien Manh History/Tradition 15 Dinh. The Osprey sits high on its look-out point holding a tasty meal between its Guild Exclusive 2010 16 talons. The feathers are decorated in stunning shades of grey with black and Once again it is time for me to sit down with white flecks to create an opulent textured the proof of the latest magazine and write effect. The base is decorated with pebbles my small contribution. Usually this is and turquoise ripples to represent the something that I like to do sitting looking out at the garden but after a day spent swirling waters of the preparing a new price list at home Ospreys’ hunting yesterday, today I have to be in the office. ground. As anyone who has been watching the press will know the current economic uncertainty has driven lots of investors to put their money into traditionally one of the safest forms of investment, gold. This has driven the gold price up something like 250% in the past few years. In recent months we have seen the price of the gold that we apply rise by up to 40% and with the amount that we use, that is a big increase for us. Hence my work on new increased prices which I am sorry to say have to come into effect in August just to help recover some, but not all, of the increase in the cost of gold. You will see from the pages of the magazine that despite the huge price rises we have not reduced the amount of gold that we use to make our pieces truly spectacular. The designers have been busy again and have as usual come up with some wonderful new pieces. The Cockerel featured on the front cover is one of the most dramatic paperweights we have done for some time. Mark Delf has captured both movement and power in the model and Carmen Roome has made the very best of the shape with a lavish Imari inspired decoration. A future classic! When John Ablitt first mentioned doing a Penguin from was supposed to be the finest ship ever built, it is fitting Australia I assumed he was joking as I was sure that that the Al a Carte restaurant was equipped with the very there were no penguins in Australia. It was only when I finest bone china in the world, Royal Crown Derby. With met a family on holiday last summer who had been living the anniversary approaching, a number of documentaries there and had seen the Fairy Penguins that I realised he are being made about the ship and one in particular Old Imari Solid Gold Band was quite serious. Obviously being an Australian subject focuses on the companies who helped to build the ship it has more than a hint of fun and mischief about it and a and all that went into it. Obviously being one of the few Dublin Tulip Lamp great addition it makes to the range too. The last time companies still around who did supply the ship we have Modelled by Peter Allen. His Holiness the Pope visited Great Britain it was a time become involved. Part of the programme looks at the for great celebration among the Catholic community. technology that was on the ship such as freezers, fridges Design adapted by our design technicians. The visit of Pope Benedict looks like being another great and ovens to provide the food. Obviously recreating a Height 23.5cm without shade. occasion and so we felt that occasion would be a good meal that would have been served on board was a natural opportunity to launch the new cross with a highly element of the programme and naturally it had to be attractive and very clever design by June Branscombe. served on the correct china. Using our pattern books We have all become captivated by the stories of Katie the and the skills of the team here we have recreated the rabbit, I think she is now often the star of the magazine. pattern that was supplied to the ship and it will be This fabulous new shape is both The latest instalment shows that you can indeed house launched later this year. Louise, Hugh and I were lucky beautiful and practical. This simply train a rabbit! Well maybe that should be rabbit train a enough to be invited to the dinner at Shugborough Hall stunning piece decorated in our house. Our latest rabbit paperweight has got us all in Staffordshire where we ate a Titanic meal, and the six feeling very romantic and it looks like becoming a courses of mainly meat were just that, off the Titanic traditional Old Imari Solid Gold Band favourite gift for many family and friends around here. china. The programme will be shown in September and design can be purchased as a complete A little more levity is seen on page 9 with the launch of we will give some more details then but having eaten a lamp with the gold shade (illustrated) or “Nick & Dave”. Not yet featured on “Have I Got News meal off the pattern I am afraid that yet another design For You” but surely a great candidate, these two mark will be entering the Willis household. I love it! with a blue shade, or as the base only. what is a historic political moment and a collectable of the future I am sure. We understand that a couple may be finding their way to Number 10! On a more serious note 2012 marks 100 years since the Titanic sank with the loss of hundreds of lives. For what 2 3 NEW PIECES NEW PIECES The Fairy Penguin Modelled and designed by John Ablitt. Height 11cm. The Fairy Penguin is the smallest species of Penguin, around 43cm tall. It is found on the coastlines of Southern Australia and New Zealand. Apart from Fairy Penguin they have several common names such as Little Penguins or Blue Penguins, which is derived from their vibrant colouring. Fairy Penguins spend their days out at sea hunting for food in shallow waters close to the shore. They can also be seen congregating in groups, referred to as ‘rafts’. They live together socially in pairs within a colony for much of the year and inhabit burrows in coastal dunes. The male is a little larger than the female, although their plumage is similar. Designer June Branscome has Designer John Ablitt was spot on when he designed this designed this magical new hardy little bird with the head and upperparts decorated piece in a pallet of rich gold in rich indigo with slate-grey ear coverts fading to a and cream. A subtly raised white underneath, from chin to belly. The flippers are paste design graces the indigo blue and white underneath. The bill is dark- simple elegant form of this grey and the irises pale silver. The feet have a whitish pure white Royal Crown Derby upper-part with black soles and webbing. A definite must have china cross. The decoration is for your paperweight collection. a visual interpretation of the crucifixion as found in The This beautiful bird is available initially from Sorellie in Reigate as a pre-release edition of 150 and will King James Bible, specifically have a special certificate. Sorellie are holding an event on Saturday 9th October from 11am - 3pm. the Gospels of St. John Please call Sorellie on 01737 244182 to pre-order your piece now. [Chapter 15], and St. Luke [Chapter 24]. and includes references to the events of the time - palm leaves, the Crown of Thorn and the three nails. Old Imari Solid Gold Band Large Size Mirror Modelled by Peter Allen Design adapted by our skilled graphic technicians. Height 35cm Width 30cm. Papal Cross Papal visit from 16-19 September 2010. The “Mirror mirror on the wall, who is Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI was elected Modelled by Peter Allen the 265th successor of St Peter on 19 April the fairest of them all?” Designed by June Branscombe Height 20cm 2005. His Holiness is only the second non- Italian pope since 1522, the other being his Well we cannot be sure of that but we can be much-loved predecessor Pope John Paul II. To sure that we have produced one of the fairest In the summer of 1982 His Holiness Pope date, Pope Benedict has visited 15 countries mirrors ever seen. The traditional Old Imari John Paul II travelled to Great Britain for a and is due to visit Malta and Portugal this year patterning around the border of this lavish historic six day tour that saw him greet and before arriving in the UK for his four-day visit.