Posts Tagged ‘Hornsea Pottery’
Friday, September 9th, 2011
These are the big eyes of our latest owl – in this case a pottery money box.
They never stay with us long as these feathered friends are consistently popular in our shop.
Whether in the form of money boxes, mugs, pot stands, textile prints, pictures or book illustrations.
We’ve blogged a fair few times about the great illustrator, Kenneth Townsend. He designed the cutest owl as part of his Menagerie series – apparently the owl was his favourite animal!
Another wonderful illustrator with a thing for owls was Celestino Piatti who once said, “You can draw an owl a thousand times, and never find out its secret”.
image credit: Fishink
We’ve had a quick trawl on the web for some more owls – here are some favourites:
image credit: Vintage Kids’ Books my Kid Loves
Wise Ol’ Canister, Orange: £118 – Anthropologie
Happy owl open edition print by Matte Stephens: $35 – Etsy
image credit: mmmcrafts
image credit: Shailesh Chavda
Tags: A Book of Various Owls, art, bird, birds, Celestino Piatti, design, Hornsea Pottery, illustration, John Hollander, Kenneth Townsend, Lotus Pottery, Matte Stephens, owl, owls, pottery, Tomi Ungerer
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Friday, May 27th, 2011
We posted a blog recently featuring the ‘love mug’ series produced by Hornsea Pottery in the 1970s.
The company is famous for their mugs – so we photographed a few more examples whilst we were sorting through our ‘Hornsea box’.
They feature a vast array of designs and commemorate all manner of events.
The love mugs were the work of Kenneth Townsend, but the main name associated with Hornsea Pottery is John Clappison. He’s certainly the name that collectors look out for.
Some examples are quite rare and attract strong prices.
They’re now often kept safe as display pieces and you can understand why. The company has long since closed down, so the number of surviving pieces can only decrease.
You have to be quite brave to use them for your everyday brew…
…but if you do, they’re sure to give you a bit of pleasure with every sip.
Justin has his Aries star sign mug. He doesn’t take any notice of his horoscope, but he loves this fabulous design… and being reminded of all of his positive traits at the start of each day!!
Tags: Hornsea, Hornsea Pottery, John Clappison, Kenneth Townsend, mug, mugs
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Friday, May 20th, 2011
We’ve been sorting through a huge box of Hornsea Pottery that lives in our loft.
Amongst the collection are these fabulous love mugs.
There are 12 great designs – each corresponds to a month of the year and show a young couple in a characteristic scene from that month – bonfire night for November, rain showers for April etc etc.
They were designed by Kenneth Townsend for Hornsea Pottery in the 1970s.
We’re adding to the set gradually – an even bigger box might be required… or more shelves!!
You can find out more about Hornsea Love mugs on the official Kenneth Townsend website. Oh, and if you have any Hornsea pottery items, we founded a Hornsea Pottery Collectors group on Flickr that you can sign up to!
Tags: April, date, December, Hornsea, Hornsea Love Mugs, Hornsea Pottery, July, Kenneth Townsend, Kosta Boda, love mugs, months, mugs, November, pottery, Young Lovers Mugs
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Friday, May 13th, 2011
Here are some of our favourite recent purchases – picked up at auction & flea markets over the past couple of weeks.
Items range from a 19th century country Windsor chair to 1970s alarm clock. There’s some lovely pottery including a large Arabia plate and 1950s handpainted pieces by Glyn Colledge. Also a nice selection of vintage kitchenalia and the best child’s sewing machine we’ve ever come across! For a full listing see below.
- antique stickback Windsor chair
- Campden Pottery dish decorated with an incised cockerel figure
- child’s 1950s Vulcan sewing machine
- trio of 1970s T G Green tea, coffee & sugar containers
- aluminium measuring cup
- wooden perpetual desk calendar
- Hornsea Pottery owl mug
- large Arabia plate designed by Raija Uosikkinen
- hand painted Glyn Colledge/Langley Pottery vase
- lemon yellow alarm clock
- vintage 1950s Tala aluminium flour, sugar and cereal canisters
- striped pottery oil/vinegar pot
- handmade Eldfast Hoganas Keramik fish plate
- hand painted Glyn Colledge/Denby Pottery atomic pin dish
- atomic, wall mountable wire plant pot holder
We’re hoping to make this a regular post. It will enable us preview items about to hit the shop – and also share with you photos of goodies that might just take that bit longer to be prised away.
Tags: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, atomic, Campden Pottery, Denby Pottery, Eldfast Hoganas Keramik, forthcoming attractions, Glyn Colledge, homewares, Hornsea Pottery, Langley Pottery, Raija Uosikkinen, T G Green, Tala, vintage, Vulcan sewing machine, Windsor chair
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Saturday, February 14th, 2009
Tags: "Miroslav Sasek", 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Acapulco, Alice and Martin Provensen, animals, Aries, Beefeater, birds, biscuit tin, Dean Mitchell, elephant, Emile Probst, fabric, Folk Tales of the World, glass, Hornsea Pottery, illustration, John Clappison, kangaroo, Kenneth Townsend, Life of St Martin, lion, Losmonosov, mouse, owl, Peaceable Kingdom, penguins, Sasek, Scandinavian, Shaker Abecedarius, Staffordshire Pottery, teak, This is Edinburgh, This is London, tiger, Villeroy and Boch, Walasse Ting, Washington Pottery, zoo
Posted in books, ceramics, design, fabric, homewares, illustration, pottery, Scandinavian, textiles, vintage | 3 Comments »
