MADAM – I write regarding your Pick of the Week article (ATG No 2354,) on the Walter Crane vase (1890) for Maw & Co, sold at the Kingham & Orme auction in July. You reference the Walter Crane collection at Rode Hall in Cheshire (where Crane often stayed as a young man).
Readers may wish to know that this is the only recorded complete set of vases designed by Walter Crane for Maw & Co – which took me about 30 years to assemble – and is on public view at the hall with other examples of Crane’s work (see website below).
Richard Dennis