Pleydell-Bouverie wrote in 1928: 'I want my pots to make people think, not of the Chinese, but of things like pebbles and shells and bird's eggs and stones over which moss grows'. The low tones of the glaze of this pot are typical of her work.

She expected her very organic and abstractly beautiful pots to be functional as well as decorative and noted that 'Flowers stand out of them more pleasantly, it seems to me.'3 3. Crafts Council/Crafts Study Centre, Katherine Pleydell-Bouverie: A Potter's Life 1895-1985 (1986).