Denby Arabesque Samarkand Vegetable/Serving Bowl Light Trim 7" x 3 3/8"

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Denby Arabesque Samarkand Vegetable/Serving Bowl Light Trim 7" x 3 3/8" Happy to combine shipping with the other Denby pieces I am listing. Information I found online about the company and the pattern: Originally Arabesque started as a small set of gift ware designed by Gill Pemberton - with the same stylish and ergonomically correct handles as those on the Denby Chevron Range. A trip to Russia with her husband in 1962 inspired the idea for the red and golden hand painted decoration which she developed further. The design for Arabesque was bound to become a cultural icon of the 1960's and 1970's. The Arabesque range was in production only 12 months after the Chevron range had started and continued in production for almost 20 years. Despite its very high volumes, and appeal to the mass market - each piece was still hand painted until the mid 1970's. The range was originally named Samarakand (which it continued to be in the U.S) but this had to be changed when at the same time Portmerion pottery produced a range by the same name. Originally the medallions were applied with a decal or transfer, and the red dot in the centre of each medallion on the Arabesque range wasn't there in the original designs. There are a number of versions of how it became part of the design, but when it did it lifted the whole motif to a new level of read more

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