The couple set up their own studio in the Roslyn Works in Longton six years ago after being made redundant from Moorcroft Enamels.

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They're arranged in domestic settings alongside paintings, sculptures, ceramics, enamels and other artworks by his Pomona Valley contemporaries, including his mentor, the painter Millard Sheets.

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Among the brooches is a spectacular creation in which an octopus attacks a butterfly, designed by Germany's Wilhelm Lucas von Cranach from 1900 and executed in pearls, gold, rubies, amethysts, topaz and enamels.

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Made of cream-colored earthenware, the vase is hand-painted with polychrome enamels and gold over passages of ivory and luster glaze each glaze and area of color or gold required a separate kiln firing at specific, carefully controlled temperatures.

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