A light aqua and pale yellow ceramic water lily sculpture sits on a marble bathroom vanity next to a lit candle and flowers, with a bathtub and gold faucet in the softly blurred background.

Colourful ceramic flower-shaped sculpture on a white background

A ceramic water lily shaped sculpture with a light blue glaze and pale yellow accents on the petals, set against a plain white background.

A decorative ceramic flower sculpture with a glossy light blue-green glaze and pale yellow edging, shown on a white background with dimension lines indicating 5 1/4 inches wide and 5 1/2 inches tall.

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A ceramic water lily shaped sculpture with a light blue glaze and pale yellow accents on the petals, set against a plain white background. 3

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Aurora Water Lily Sculpture | Ceramic Garden

Name: Aurora Water Lily Sculpture | Ceramic Garden
Brand: Chive Canada
SKU: MM-AWLS-BLU-CER
Price: 59.00 CAD
Availability: InStock

$59.00

Objects we couldn't forget, so we gathered them for you.

Some flowers seem almost too perfect to have grown by themselves.

Floating quietly at the surface of a pond, a water lily can appear less like something the garden made and more like something carefully placed there. Aurora Water Lily captures that extraordinary natural symmetry in robin's-egg blue, with pale yellow emerging along the petals like sunlight touching water.

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There are flowers we know because we have grown them. And then there are flowers we admire from gardens different from our own. The ones that make us imagine creating an entirely new corner of the garden simply for the pleasure of seeing them there.

For us, the water lily is one of those flowers.

There is something almost unbelievable about encountering one on a pond. Surrounded by the looseness and irregularity of the natural world, the flower itself can appear astonishingly composed. Petals unfold around a precise centre. The bloom rests almost weightlessly above the water. From a distance, it can look so perfect that you wonder for a moment whether it could possibly be real.

That was what made this ceramic interpretation so compelling.

At 5.8 inches across and 2.8 inches deep, Aurora is one of the more substantial blooms in The Ceramic Garden, giving its long, beautifully modelled petals room to open outward just as they would on the water.

Then there is the glaze. A soft robin's-egg blue washes across the flower, becoming deeper where petals overlap and allowing their sculptural form to emerge. Along the raised edges, the glaze gives way to the palest yellow, as though light has found the flower and settled there.

It seems particularly fitting for a water lily. Because perhaps what makes these flowers so captivating isn't that they look perfectly made.

It's realizing that nature made them that way.

Perhaps nature was a sculptor long before we were.

Aurora belongs somewhere close to water.

Place her in a primary ensuite, where her robin's-egg blue feels particularly beautiful against stone, marble, warm wood, linen and the quieter materials we associate with bathing and rest.

Let her rest beside a freestanding tub where she can be appreciated from above, place her on a vanity or open shelf among beautifully considered everyday objects, or hang her unexpectedly on the wall near a mirror.

At 5.8 inches across, Aurora has enough presence to stand alone. She doesn't need an arrangement of objects around her to explain why she's there. In a quiet bathroom, a single ceramic water lily can become its own small botanical moment, a flower beside the water, exactly where it seems she ought to be.

And unlike the water lilies we admire floating on a summer pond, this one remains long after the season has passed.

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Perhaps that's the real test of an object worth bringing home. You can already picture where it will live. On the table you pass each morning. Beside the chair where you read. On the shelf that needed nothing, until you found the one thing that felt right.

Some pieces simply have a way of finding their place.