Titian Studio Pottery Blog

B-103 (Butterfly Vase) L ove is a butterfly which when pursued is just beyond your grasp, but if you will sit down quietly it may alight upon you.  -  Nathaniel Hawthorne . Who can resist a butterfly? There's the distinctive orange and black of the Monarchs floating gracefully on a breeze. The red and gold of our native Red Admiral* and the small blue hued or copper coloured moths drifting across fields of long grass. They remind me of lazy childhood Christmases spent on the Coromandel Peninsula. And school holidays riding on the back of trailers, hauled by noisy tractors at Puhoi. A time of eeling, making hay forts and looking for frogs beside an overgrown fish pond. Mum hated frogs!!  * The New Zealand red admiral (Vanessa gonerilla) is a butterfly endemic to New Zealand. Its Māori name is  kahukura , which means "red cloak". ( wikipedia.org ) B-103 Butterfly Vase Titian Studio designed, and slip cast stand-up butterfly vases and butterfly wall vases. These ...