A Brand New Building for 2012

Based on Penhaligons of Covent Garden, London

2012….The Year of the Dragon and Chinese Calligraphy Studio

Launching our first new ceramic of 2012, on ‘Penhaligons of Covent Garden, London.  This famous perfumers was founded in 1870, and holds two royal warrants!

Here we present it ready for the Chinese New Year, the second in our Chinatown collection.

On the 23rd January 2012 the Chinese year of the Dragon begins, and as a Dragon year baby herself, with a special birthday later this year, Hazle has designed this limited painting of just 36 Ceramics, and will be painting all of this edition herself! Why 36?  The edition will be numbered up to 50 ceramics, but just for fun, as the number 4 is considered to be the unluckiest number, there will be no ceramics with a number 4 – leaving just 36 available ceramics in the edition!

On the ground floor we have a Chinese Calligraphy studio with an artist at work inside painting lucky sayings to greet friends in the new year.  A red & green Chinese dragon curves between the first and second floor windows, take a close look at his tail to read the date 2012.

Our new building measures 22.5cm tall (9”) x 9.8cm wide (just under 4”) and is priced at £94.95 + carriage/insurance.

Click here to order your Year of the Dragon

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Presenting: …..The Dickens  Collection

Christmas is on it’s way once again, and as we look forward to the bicentenary of Dickens birth next February we present three Dickens themed Limited Edition Paintings as our Christmas 2011 offering. There will be just 50 of each building in this Limited Edition available as a set of three or individually. The earlier numbers will be reserved for the first collectors buying the complete set of three.

Hazle’s inspiration for this comes not only from the upcoming Dickens bicentenary, but also from her own love of Dickens’ works, and also the parallels that can be drawn between then and our present times. The complete set of three is available at £240.00 Plus postage/insurance, or can be purchased individually. Click here to order your set

Our Mutual Friend

Left:  ‘Our Mutual Friend’

Based on our unusual corner building at Upton upon Severn.

This ceramic is designed and painted by Christine, and shows Dickens writing at his desk in the  left hand window, and on one of famous public reading tours on the right hand side.

Alongside the first floor windows, we see three of Dickens most famous characters. Individual price £95.00 Click here to order ‘Our Mutual Friend’

A Christmas Carol

Centre:  ‘A Christmas Carol’

This is based on the  Charles Dickens House Museum, 48 Doughty Street, London, where the Collectors had a wonderful gathering to launch the building in the company of Cedric Charles Dickens some years ago. (they now have a cafe by the way—we had to bring our own picnic back then…..)

Our Carol has painted the walls with Carol singers in Victorian dress. Dickens wrote several Christmas stories, the best known and loved being ‘A Christmas Carol’ The signboard outside reads ‘Charles Dickens 1812 – 2012 A Great Legacy’ Individual price £85.00  Click here to order ‘A Christmas Carol’

The Pawnbroker

Right:   The Pawnbroker

Painted on ‘England’s Smallest Pub’ The Nutshell in Bury St Edmonds, which was once a pawnbrokers!  The signboard outside, features part of

Micawber's quote

Mr Micawber’s famous quote the rest of which is ’ Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure Twenty pounds ought and six, result misery’. (We thought we’d stay on the happier side for Christmas)  The character of Mr Micawber is said to be based on Dickens own father.  A sign on the side of the building points to Marshalsea debtors prison, where Dickens spent time as a child, with his father whose debts led him there. The top floor houses the Circumlocution Office’ from ‘Little Dorrit’ a place of endless confusion where things go round and round and  nothing gets done.  This was a comment by Dickens on the way government obstructs and discourages progress, and clarity.  Frequent visitors to the pawnbroker were women trying to feed and clothe their families with whatever small assets they had, the result of widowhood or alcoholic husbands. A pawn was a pledge and the practice of securing a loan in this way began in the Italian province of  Lombardy under the name of Lombard Banking.  The symbol is said to have represented three gold coins converted to spheres to better attract attention.  Individual price £85.00 Click here to order ‘The Pawnbroker’

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Welcome to Hazle Ceramics, creators of the Award-winning “A Nation of Shopkeepers” collectible ceramic wall plaques.

Hazle Ceramics was formed in 1990 by Hazle Boyles, who at the time designed, painted and produced all the ceramics herself. Since then the company has grown substantially,  now selling its ceramics to many enthusiastic collectors worldwide.

The main collection ‘A Nation of Shopkeepers’ takes its name from the famous Napoleon quote.  Hazle took the statement as a compliment to the kind of liveliness and endeavour that can be found in the British High Street, with its hotchpotch of architectural styles and bustling activity, and has produced a range of low relief miniatures that reflect many different periods of British Architecture and History: Edwardian, Victorian, Georgian, Elizabethan and Tudor.

The range has received the British Giftware Association Award for the ‘Best Collectible’ for its ‘originality and value’.

In 2004 Eric Knowles chose Hazle Ceramics as his best new discovery at the UK’s largest gift fair, he said ‘I find the Nation of Shopkeepers range charming and innovative.  When I came across them I thought they were fascinating. Lots of people are doing minature buildings, but these are interesting architecturally…As a collectable I can see them lasting in their charm, and they will be contested for by future generations’

If you are looking for your own piece of British Heritage, our range has something for you, whether you are a visitor to, or fan of England, enjoy our rich architechural variety, have an interest in social history, are looking for attractive investment pieces, or simply value products still entirely made in Britain.

You are always welcome to email us: info@hazle.com

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