Intriguing Floral Patterns on Art Pottery

Intriguing Floral Patterns on Art Pottery


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Decorating a home can be hugely challenging but, at the same time, immensely rewarding. Whether you choose to decorate in a particular style, according to a specific theme, or simply because a certain look inspires you, much depends on personal taste.  

Have you considered using one or more of your favorite art pottery pieces to define your look? Perhaps you didn’t even realize that you could. But you can, especially when you have art pottery with intriguing floral patterns.  

Decorating Ideas & Inspiration 

There are so many sources of ideas and inspiration for home decor when you start looking, you may be surprised. Books and magazines are good sources, while showrooms are another, though they are, by their very nature, commercial.  

Visiting show houses can be inspiring for some people, while exploring nature stimulates ideas for others. It’s got a lot to do with creating a mood that will make your environment special for you and your family.  

Apart from styles and themes, the focus of any decorating scheme may also be color. You can choose to use one hue on its own, two or three combined, or a mixture of different shades of one color. Pattern and texture can also play a role. But, while color and texture are evident in most surfaces in the home, patterns are usually more evident in fabrics, soft furnishings, carpeting, and accessories, including art pottery. 

So, you will see that floral patterns on art pottery can introduce a flower theme. Alternatively, you can use your favorite pieces as a starting point for a color theme

Rookwood Vase  

Flowers as a Source of Inspiration  

Let’s talk about flowers. Fresh flowers are a wonderful way to add color, pattern, and texture to any room in your home. Options come and go and you will always have a multitude of choices either from your own garden. Or, if you don’t have a garden with flowering plants, you can buy fresh flowers from florists or informal flower sellers. Potted flowering plants are also a favorite with many people. Many will continue to bloom year after year.   

But whether in a garden, a park, or in a ceramic vase, flowers are, in themselves, inspirational. The flower vase itself may inspire you if it has a floral motif. 

Have you noticed how often fabric and wallpaper designers draw inspiration from flowers? Sometimes, it is the flowers themselves that inspire these designers. Sometimes, it is the colors. And sometimes the colors are combined with a pattern that they identify and use as part of the design.  

How to Introduce Flowers as Part of a Decor Scheme 

If you like the idea of using flowers in your decor scheme, there are many ways that you can do this. You can: 

  • plant flowers in your garden to complement the colors in your home  
  • use floral fabric for curtains and blinds and possibly wallpaper  
  • look out for rugs that feature patterns inspired by plants and flowers 
  • fill your home with fresh flowers to add color and scent to your interiors  
  • choose plates, mugs, teapots, teacups, and crockery that are decorated with floral patterns  
  • hang paintings or prints that feature flowers 

Another great way to introduce floral patterns is with various accessories, including art pottery. As mentioned above, art pottery can be a great starting point for a decorating scheme. 

How to Use Art Pottery as Your Inspiration 

The easiest way to use art pottery as a starting point for any design theme is to highlight shapes, patterns, and colors. When you have a piece with intriguing floral patterns, ironically, it’s not so much the pattern that matters. Rather, it’s the colors that count. That is unless you are choosing a piece that reflects a particular decorating style, like Art Nouveau, Art Deco, or Arts and Crafts. 

Inspired by Color 

If you opt to mirror colors, then don’t choose more than one or two (three if you must). So, for example, we often have lovely Roseville, Rookwood, and Weller art pottery available. These were the leading art pottery manufacturers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. 

Roseville Rozane was Roseville’s first high-quality line, and we often have their antique art pottery floral jardiniere planters available. Hugely collectable, Rozane designs commonly feature flowers. You could choose one of the flowers in a design and paint your walls in your living room that color or a lighter shade. Or, you could look for a rug that has floral patterns in similar colors. 

You don’t need to go overboard because you don’t want to detract from your prime piece … your prized art pottery item that has inspired you.  

You might even opt to use the background color of your piece, especially if it is a soothing neutral hue. Its floral patterns will then stand out even more.  

Inspired by Style 

Decorating in a particular style can be an immense challenge, but there is no doubt that art pottery can help you define it. In our blog post, Choose Art Pottery To Match The Style Of Your Home, we focus on the three styles mentioned above. While this post provides you with some basic elements that will enable you to achieve each look, we don’t say much about floral patterns.  

We do, though, mention that: 

  • Art pottery from the Arts and Crafts era has decorative motifs that were often inspired by nature, including flowers. 

  • Items created in the Art Nouveau style often featured amazingly intricate flowers. 

  • Art Deco pottery largely discarded floral and nature-based images. But you will still find flowers in some Art Deco patterns.  

What this means is that if you opt to try and decorate in a traditional style, there are definitive art pottery pieces out there with intriguing floral patterns you may love.  

What Does Just Art Pottery Have to Offer? 

Our stock changes all the time, but typically, we have early 20th-century items made by Roseville that feature floral patterns. Their pieces include wall pockets, planters, and vases.  

A standout piece from Weller had a white rose etched on an Arts and Crafts urn from 1905. But they produced in other styles too, and we have had Art Deco art pottery from Weller that features floral patterns.  

We often have Rookwood ceramic flower vases and sometimes floral porcelain bowls.  

Of course, you can also opt for a floral theme of some sort by simply displaying your special art pottery vases, jugs, and urns with fresh or even dried flowers. That way, you can pick and choose different pieces to display.  

Ultimately, it’s up to you. But what may be surprising to some people is that the ideas and inspiration may come from your own home. 

 

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