This cup from my collection is decorated in the 'Castles and Roses' style of folk art, traditionally associated with canal boats on the British waterways.
In this style of decorative art roses are prominent, often set off by daisies. A daisy is such a common flower that its beauty is often overlooked. The name daisy comes from 'day's eye', dægesege, its Old English form, named for the way the flowers close tightly at everning and then reopen at dawn, and recorded from around 1000. The Oxford English Dictionary quotes Chaucer from later, about 1385
Wele by reson men it calle may The dayeseye, or ellis the eye of day.
The Day's Eye
This cup from my collection is decorated in the 'Castles and Roses' style of folk art, traditionally associated with canal boats on the British waterways.
In this style of decorative art roses are prominent, often set off by daisies. A daisy is such a common flower that its beauty is often overlooked. The name daisy comes from 'day's eye', dægesege, its Old English form, named for the way the flowers close tightly at everning and then reopen at dawn, and recorded from around 1000. The Oxford English Dictionary quotes Chaucer from later, about 1385
Wele by reson men it calle may The dayeseye, or ellis the eye of day.