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Easter Treats

Thursday, March 21st, 2013

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collection of Easter themed homewares and foodstuffs

Easter is all about spring birth, rebirth and renewal. That’s why it’s celebrated with animal motifs such as eggs, chicks, rabbits, lambs and spring flowers. Here’s our pick of Easter-themed delights!

  1. Duck Timer, kitchen timer -£34, Alessi
  2. Cottage Delight Simnel Cake – £4.50, John Lewis
  3. Hop to It! Paper Cups – £4, Fortnum & Mason
  4. Personalised Solid Silver Egg Cup – £65 (spoon extra), Not on the High Street
  5. Sunshine in a Bag – £11.99, Nigel’s Eco Store
  6. Free Range Tea Cosy – £12, Ulster Weavers
  7. Clockwork tin collectables – £6.99, Culture Vulture

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Egg-squisite!

Friday, January 20th, 2012

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vintage slipware egg cup & saucer produced by TerryBaun with vintage Viners "Studio" teaspoon designed by Gerald Benney

We picked up this gorgeous little egg cup & saucer this week. It only cost a pound, but it’s one of those little items that we’re going to treasure. We’ve mentioned previously how much we love this type country slipware pottery.

vintage slipware egg cup produced by TerryBaun

We did a bit of research into the maker and it turns out that it’s by Terrybaun Pottery – one of the oldest, if not the oldest, craft potteries in Ireland. It was established by Madeleine & Grattan Freyer in the late 1940s. Our egg cup looks like it might be one of their quite early slipware pieces.

base of vintage slipware egg cup produced by TerryBaun showing impressed back stamp

Below are just a few examples of the slipware & scaffito pieces they produced in the 1950s/60s – the pictures are taken from the Irish Arts Review’s online archive – stunning!!

trio of vintage slipware bowls from the Terrybaun Pottery

long oval Terrybaun Pottery dish with scraffito decoration by Oisin Kelly depicting the Last Supper

The couple’s nephew, master potter Henri Hedou, alongside his wife Fiona, carries on the tradition – taking over the running of the Co Mayo pottery in 1983.

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E is for… Egg

Saturday, March 20th, 2010

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eggs in shadow

With Easter just around the corner, ‘E’ just had to be for egg. We’ve had a quick trawl through our photos looking for some eggy paraphernalia.

vintage stainless steel egg cup with egg and pile of salt

vintage stainless steel egg cup on stand with matching spoon

We’ll start with a few egg cups…

vintage Figgjo Flint 'Turi' pottery egg cup

vintage plastic egg cup set in original packaging

set of vintage teak egg cups

set of vintage pottery egg cups

set of vintage orange and brown melamine egg cups

set of vintage Hornsea 'Bronte' egg cups on teak under tray

…and how about an egg cosy to keep the chill off?

pair of yellow handknitted egg cosies

Storage solutions…

eggs in a vintage wire egg basket, vintage Cathrineholm 'Lotus' enamel bowl and antique wooden egg tray

…whisks…

vintage egg beater

and spatulas.

vintage orange omlette making set in original packaging

No matter how many people there are in your household, or how many you like at a time, there’s an egg poacher for you!

vintage one egg aluminium poacher

vintage aluminium four egg poacher

For the complete boiled egg experience, you can’t beat this lovely bright orange set!

vintage orange plastic boiled egg set comprising yimer, egg cups and salt & pepper shakers

And finally, we couldn’t do an egg blog without mentioning the most famous egg of all- Humpty Dumpty of course. We picked up some vintage nursery rhyme records recently, and Humpty was amongst them.

vintage 1970s childs Humpty Dumpty 45rpm recordvintage 1970s childs 45rpm Humpty Dumpty record

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