Blue White Purslane

A 59th anniversary gift ought to reward someone who's already received every anniversary gift imaginable, and the Blue White Purslane is the most botanically unexpected shape in the whole Nantucket set — purslane being a plant most people know either as a garnish or a weed, depending on their mood that day. It's also one of just two pieces here whose handle still lines up with its name, purely by accident of never once being renamed. Displayed with a nautical sensibility, it holds its glaze pattern needing no hose, no trowel, and no standing maintenance, regardless of the plant's humble reputation. A gift for a landscape architect should reward exactly this kind of specificity and restraint. This shape has been worked by hand in-house for two decades, dating back to 2004. Chive ceramics have moved through the Longwood Gardens shop in seasons past. The plant's reputation never asked for a second look. The glaze earned it one anyway.