Thistles are unapologetically spiky yet rather splendid and beautiful when flowering around the wilder edges of the garden, just like the ones sponge-painted around the rim of Emma Bridgewater’s Thistle Medium Dinner Plate, 8.5 Inch. Take a closer look at the thistle pattern on this dinner plate and instead see a crown of purple fluffiness atop a stem, standing guard and taking pride of place – just like these decorative ceramic plates will on your table.