H is for Home

Egg-squisite!

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.

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.

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!!

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

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.

We’ll start with a few egg cups…

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

Storage solutions…

…whisks…

and spatulas.

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!

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

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.

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