Moorcroft Bee-in-Time Clock Paix Part of Goviers exclusive range

Part of Goviers exclusive range of Platinum Jubilee Commemoratives

Designed By Tug Rice

5cm / W 6cm

(Image shows all three sides of the same vase)

By 1876 Wardle was printing a range of fourteen designs for Morris & Co and Wardle’s silks were sold in Liberty

Moorcroft Bee-in-Time Clock Paix Part of Goviers exclusive rangeA floriferous rose design on this clock chimes out joyfully in lemon pink hues, as tight to open buds clamber around the clock face. A drone can be found, nestled into the side of the clock, between rose and hive. Interestingly, Ingeborg Beling, a German ethnologist from the early 20th century, discovered that bees have a endogenous clock as described in her 1929 paper "ber das Zeitgedchtnis der Bienen" (On the Time Memory of Bees). The experiment was