A limited edition in fine porcelain. Crafted in fine porcelain by master sculptor, David Fryer, The Peace Rose is available from davidfryerstudios.co.uk .
The Peace Rose is one of the finest works of art to emanate from David Fryer's studios. Every tiny brush-stroke is lovingly applied to create this typical example of the classic Peace Rose, whilst the natural 'flow' of the sculpture means it's a real pleasure to study from any angle.
The processes involved in the creation of a floral sculpture of this brilliance are extremely complex. From his original rough sketches, David Fryer 'breathes life into porcelain', sculpting and defining each petal, each curve of leaf, conveying the majesty of form to create a model that is technically accurate and artistically perfect. From modelling the original sculpture in wax, through casting, firing and painting, a variety of traditional techniques must be perfectly combined before the porcelain sculpture is complete.
The hallmark of a consummate artist
Together, these qualities bear witness to the consummate skill of a master craftsman, an artist at ease with his medium. Now you can acquire one of the most perfect floral centerpieces, delicately portrayed in fine porcelain and incorporating the essence of the natural habitat.
The Peace Rose
"The Peace Rose" is an English classic, delicately coloured with a gorgeous fragrance. Even the thorns add a special character to the rose, serving as a sharp reminder to aquisitive fingers that pluck without considering the consequenses.
The rose, Rosa, has been grown and appreciated for its fragrance and beauty since ancient times and today is the most popular and widely cultivated garden flower in the world.
The genus contains some 100 species, most of them native to the North Temperate Zone. Some are cultivated in their natural form or as various similar cultivars, but most of the more than 20,000 cultivars are the result of careful hybridisation and selection from a few species.
The cultivars are classed either as old roses, that is, plants that have essentially reached the end of their horticultural development, with no new varieties having been introduced in the past 60 years, or as contemporary roses, that is, plants that are currently being hybridised and selected for new forms.
Several hundred new contemporary rose cultivars are introduced each year. In the U.S., some 20 million rose plants are commercially cultivated annually for cut flowers, and some 40 million plants are produced for landscape and ornamental use. The classification of cultivated roses is complicated, because of the great numbers of cultivars involved and the amount of artificial hybridisation that has taken place.
Generally, the classes of old roses are based on selection from one or a few ancestral species or hybrids. Among the popular classes are the hybrid perpetuals, or remontant roses, which produce large, fragrant double flowers in early summer and fewer flowers in autumn; these are derived from R. ¥ borboniana (the ¥ indicates that the name that follows is of a hybrid, not an original species). The class of polyantha roses, which includes many dwarf forms with flowers produced in dense clusters, is derived from R. ¥ rehderana. Tea roses, from R. odorata, and China roses, from R. odorata and R. chinensis, are old rose classes from which the contemporary hybrid tea roses have been derived through hybridisation with hybrid perpetual roses.
Hybrid tea roses are less hardy but more recurrent-blooming than the old hybrid perpetuals and contain a much wider variety of colour and flower form. Many other contemporary rose classes are based on the hybrid tea roses; for example, floribunda roses were derived from crosses between hybrid tea roses and hybrid polyantha roses, the latter in turn being based on crosses between the old polyantha roses and hybrid tea rose.
