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Show A collection of twelve beautiful porcelain plates, each portraying the charm and color of the countryside in a different month of the year. Each plate bears an original work of art and is individually decorated with pure 24 karat gold. To he issued in limited edition. Offered by direet subscription only with a further limit of just one collection per applicant. Subscription Application valid until August 31, 1980. have won him an enviable reputation throughout the world. And now, for the first time in his career, Peter Barrett has undertaken the task of creating an entire collection of important new works for issue in a form particularly prized by collectors: a series of twelve beautiful porcelain plates, which will portray the entire panorama of the unspoiled countryside. .from the mountains to the sea. Each of these original works has been specially commissioned by Franklin Porcelain and created exclusively for The Country Year porcelain plate collection. After it is completed, none of these plates will ever be issued again. . he beauty of a mountain stream in autumn, or a country meadow dappled with summer sun. possesses an enchantment that is universal. And it is the rare ability to capture this the unique form of visual poetry of the has established the English that countryside Peter Barrett as of today's most gifted one painter beauty ever-changin- g landscape artists. For Barrett is blessed with the rare ability to bring to his paintings both the precise, disciplined eye of a trained naturalist and the emotional depth and sensitivity of the creative artist. Gifts that Each plate captures a different setting, a different month of the year T) encompass all the splendors of the countryside in its changing moods, each plate will depict a totally different setting... in a different month of the year. 1 he April plate, for example, conveys the loveliness of Spring from the perspective of a secluded bluebell bower. In the foreground, a hedgehog 'l.iUs shoMn srn.illt'r th.m litr sir V dial iliamrlrr im Ins ? |