Exquisite Moorcroft Large Puffin Squat Vase
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This is a stunningly beautiful, Moorcroft, Puffin Large Squat Vase, dated 1998-01 and designed by Carole Lovett, a freelance designer ..... working for Moorcroft.This beautiful Moorcroft Vase depicts 10 Puffins on a rocky / grass cliff ledge, with a sea view ...... and two birds flying in the sky.An unmistakable bird with its black back and white underparts, and distinctive black head with large pale cheeks and a tall, flattened, brightly-coloured bill. Its comical appearance is heightened by its red and black eye-markings and bright orange legs. This clown among seabirds is one of the world's favourite birds. Best looked for at a breeding colony, Bempton Cliffs (N Yorks) and South Stack (Anglesey) reserves; the Farne Islands (Northumberland); the Isle of May (off the Fife coast); and the Shetland and Orkney Islands. Adults arrive back at the breeding colony in March and April and leave again in mid-August. Some remain in the North Sea at winter, others move further south to the Bay of Biscay. The puffins main source of food being fish, especially sandeels.This Moorcroft Puffin Vase is an iconic pattern, one of the bestsellers of 1998, and has become hugely collectable, in the last 14 years.The colours in this vase are truely magnificent, cream, pastel blue, dark blue, black, white, grey, yellow, red, light and dark green, with the
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