Cheerful mid-century handpainted Poole Ware fruit bowl planted with early flowering winter bulbs Tete a tete and Muscari 'Early Bird' to brighten the darkest winter days. 
Jesse Carter bought up a broken down pottery site in Poole, Dorset in 1873 and initially concentrated concentrated on architectural ceramics but also became well know for the quality and design of its production of decorative tiling. By the 1920's the pottery had become welll-known of innovative and colourful ceramics. In 1921, two established designers John Adams and Harold Stabler joined the Carter family business and an independent subsidiary of the business was set up in the name of Carter, Stabler and Adams. Carter, Stabler and Adams main remit was to produce domestic and decorative pottery. The distinctive styles and colours of the pottery were soon established, under the influence of such people as Truda Carter, and became the benchmark for other potteries to be measured by. Surprisingly, the business was not officially named as Poole Pottery Limited, until 1963. The 1960's/1970's were the heydays of the pottery brightly coloured and easily recognised Dephis and other Studio designs. Each piece is unique which must be partly due to the fact that the individual artist was actively encouraged to vary and change the overall designs as they worked.  (from http://www.poole-pottery-replacements.co.uk/about-poole-pottery-dorset.htm).
 
Planted with daffidol and muscari bulbs in an inner plastic bowl. All our potted plants come with detailed care instructions and make the perfect Christmas gift to send someone. They come gift-wrapped with ribbon and a personalised Christmas card carefully packed up in our compostable recycled straw boxes and shipped overnight with DHL Express.