This vessel, set on a symmetrically patterned tile, is from a collection of works based on various sections of the Victorian pattern book The Grammar of Ornament by Owen Jones, which Frances read avidly as a child. The minutely glaze-painted patterns come from the India section of the book.
Frances Priest grew up in a family where making was a part of everyday life. She loved drawing, and recalls her “strange habit” of colouring in patter ...
