Blog Arts de la table — Pattern Library

Marks & Spencer “Harvest” is one of those familiar designs that seems to have found its way into a remarkable number of British homes. Warm, practical and unmistakably rooted in its period, it became far more than a simple dinner service.

Hornsea Contrast is one of the most distinctive and successful tableware ranges produced by Hornsea Pottery. With its dark brown body, crisp white working surfaces and bold black and white banding, it has a strong, confident look that feels unmistakably of its time, yet still remarkably usable today.

Indian Tree is one of those tableware designs that seems to belong to many potteries at once. Rather than being tied to a single maker, it became a decorative style interpreted by a wide range of British manufacturers, each bringing its own shapes, colours and character to the design.

At MrPottery, we have seen versions by Johnson Brothers, Duchess, Aynsley, Coalport and Wedgwood, among others.

Few tableware designs are as instantly recognisable as Royal Albert “Old Country Roses”. With its rich clusters of red, pink and yellow roses set against fine bone china and finished with elegant gold edging, it has become one of the most enduring and widely collected patterns of the 20th century.

Royal Worcester Evesham Gold is one of the most recognisable and enduring British tableware designs, known for its rich fruit decoration, elegant gold detailing and exceptionally wide range of pieces. First introduced in the 1960s, the Evesham pattern was designed at a time when British...

Few tableware designs capture the spirit of everyday British life quite like Wood’s Beryl Ware. Instantly recognisable in its soft green tones and gently ribbed form, it is a design that many people have grown up with, often without ever knowing its name. Practical, durable and...

Denby “Troubador” is one of the most elegant and understated floral designs produced by Denby Pottery in the 1970s. With its hand painted magnolias and leaves in soft greens and browns, lifted by touches of pink, it is a pattern admired for its simplicity as...

Denby “Gypsy” is one of the most distinctive and characterful tableware designs produced by Denby Pottery in the 1970s. With its soft dusky pink glaze, gently curving shapes and bold floral decoration, it offers a very different look from the darker, more heavily banded designs that many people associate with Denby.