Amongst the most storied of flowers in history, the rose is treasured for its scent, beauty and reputed healing properties. It is also significant in heraldry, appearing in several royal emblems and cyphers, and in other forms of cultural iconography both ancient and contemporary.

Today, the rose plays an integral part in the most romantic and sentimental of occasions. Shakespeare’s immortal line, ‘A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.’ would seem an apt description of this interpretation in pewter, sculpted to suggest its very essence.