Blog Arts de la table — Boots

Boots Hedge Rose is one of those discontinued tableware patterns that feels instantly familiar, even if the name is not always remembered straight away.

With its creamy white background, warm floral decoration and orange-lined rims, it has a gentle country kitchen feel. It is not a grand formal china pattern, nor was it trying to be. Hedge Rose belongs to that very practical world of everyday British tableware, bought from a trusted high street name and used in real homes.

When people think about collectable or replacement china, the big pottery names often come to mind first. Denby, Hornsea, Royal Worcester, Wedgwood, Poole Pottery and the like all have strong identities, long histories and plenty of well-known patterns.

But some of the most familiar tableware in British homes did not start with a pottery name.

It came from retailers.