Objects of use whilst eating and drinking, storage and containers.
Objects of use whilst eating and drinking, storage and containers.

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Eat / Pour / Drink

A small oiled beech and horsehair dustpan and brush set designed for sweeping crumbs from the table. The brush fits neatly inside the pan, in a manner..

Table dustpan and brush
£27.50
Boxes of 6 22cl, 16cl tumblers, or 9cl shot glasses. Teetering on the verge of (and into) bankruptcy for much of the past decade, Duralex has been res..

6 Duralex Gigogne
£4.50 – £7.00
Boxes of 6 of these classic tumblers. First designed in 1927 and produced since 1945 using Saint-Gobain's patented glass tempering method, during whic..

6 Duralex Picardie
£4.50 – £15.00
Boxes of 6 of these classic tumblers with a blue twist. First designed in 1927 and produced since 1945 using Saint-Gobain's patented glass tempering m..

6 Picardie Marine
£9.00 – £12.00
Boxes of 6 of these classic tumblers with an amber twist. First designed in 1927 and produced since 1945 using Saint-Gobain's patented glass tempering..

6 Picardie amber tumblers
£10.50 - £12.50
Simple, amber pressed-glass plates made in Duralex's La Chapelle-Saint-Mesmin plant using the renowned and patented Saint-Gobain tempering process. Go..

Duralex amber plates
£1.50 - £2.50
Designed in 1932 when the firm of Karhula (which later merged with iittala) held a competition for a new generation of affordable pressed glass. Whate..

Aino Aalto tumblers
£6.25 – £8.50
Hand or rather mouth blown vessels made of recycled glass in a small workshop amidst the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. Quickly and perhaps crudely blown..

Atlas Mountains recycled glassware
£10.00 - £25.00
Designed by Kaj Franck in 1958 Kartio glassware embodies simplicity itself, and is still produced today in a range of complementary and more or less m..

Kartio carafe
£65.00
Designed by Kaj Franck in 1958 Kartio glassware embodies simplicity itself, and is still produced today in a range of complementary and more or less m..

Kartio tumblers
£6.25 – £8.00
Fuki-urushi lacquered cups hand cut and finished by Seto Susumu from dark walnut or reddish sakura (Japanese cherry) in his small workshop in Asahikaw..

Seto Susumu cups
£72.50
An alloyed aluminium nutcracker with a ridged and lightly barbed tapered barrel which although curiously reminiscent of a medieval iron maiden none-th..

Nutcracker and cork puller
£11.00
A simple clean lined classic nutcracker from Westmark of Elspe. Made of aluminium coated with a food safe enamel turning around a hardened steel pivot..

The Hercules nutcracker
£11.00
For over 160 years Peugeot, established in 1840, have been manufacturing pepper and salt mills. The patented adjustable mechanism uses two rows of spi..

Peugeot salt and pepper mills
£26.00 – £37.00
A classic greasy spoon, or American diner style reeded glass sugar portioner, which upon inversion dispenses approximately one teaspoon of sugar. Made..

Sugar dispenser
£8.50
Egg shaped vessels for hot or cold drinks born of a collaboration between Takahashi Kougei and ONO Rina and inspired by the gentle cupping of hands ar..

Cara mug, glass, and saucer
£32.00 – £55.00
For centuries the beautifully figured birch burl kuksa has been the drinking vessel of the Sami, the indigenous people of far northern Scandinavia. Ha..

Finnish Kuksa birch burl cups
£20.00 – £125.00
Kami means paper in Japanese and is the name given to a series of vessels developed by OJI Masanori with the uncommonly skilled woodturners of Takahas..

Kami Kalopanax mugs and glasses
£32.00 – £55.00
Enamel on steel, in four colours - red, pale green, and blue - all with a black interior and lip, or solid white. 8cm internal diameter, and a capacit..

Enamel camping mugs
£15.00 – £16.50
Heavy glass bowls in the classic Picardie pattern made in Duralex's La Chapelle-Saint-Mesmin plant of the renowned Saint-Gobain tempered glass. Nomina..

Duralex Picardie bowls
£3.00 – £4.50
White vitreous enamel food carriers or lunch-pails. The steel and enamel construction is tough enough to be used directly on any hob (including the fr..

Enamel lunch pails
£30.00 – £55.00
Compartmentalised food carriers called pinto in Thailand but most famously tiffin carriers or dabbas in India where the delivery exploits of the dabba..

Pinto (tiffin) food carriers
£14.00 - £26.50
Simple but well engineered pressed aluminium lunch-boxes from Solingen in Germany, with satisfyingly tight fitting rattle free lids held in place with..

Aluminium lunch-boxes
£23.00 – £32.00
We once sold a range of stainless steel vacuum flasks of a well known classic brand, but it transpired that production had been shifted to the far eas..

Red vacuum flasks
£10.00 – £21.50
A remarkably attractive vacuum flask reproduced to celebrate the Finnish centenary, this black steel cased glass dewar vessel with a cork stopper is d..

Finnish 100th anniversary vacuum flask, black
£19.50
Based on the red Airam glass vacuum flasks of 1934, these wide mouthed food containers were developed in an endeavour to recreate the renowned heat re..

Finnish food flasks, 0.75l or 1.00l
£16.50 - £18.00
A pressed and hammered soft silver anodised aluminium teapot with a red lid and fine internal stainless steel strainer for use with all loose leaf tea..

Small Korean teapot (red lid)
£34.00
The Brown Betty teapot has its origins in the 17th century when English potters copied the spherical shape of Ming Dynasty Chinese porcelain imports. ..

Brown Betty
£13.50 – £20.50
Tightly hand woven tea strainers made of split bamboo bound and reinforced by fine lighter coloured strips of rattan. Used for centuries as part of th..

Japanese tea strainers
£19.00 – £24.00
Tightly hand woven tea strainers made of split bamboo bound and reinforced by fine lighter coloured strips of rattan. Used for centuries as part of th..

Two handled Laotian tea strainer
£13.50
Light maple, red cherry, or deep brown walnut butter cases developed by Oji Masanori in collaboration with the workshops of Takahashi Kougei, in Asahi..

Kakudo butter cases
£75.00 – £110.00
Hand thrown in smooth white stoneware for Objects of Use by Katie Coston of Ilyria Pottery, less than a mile from our store in Oxford, this butter kee..

Oxford stoneware butter keeper
£50.00 - £54.00
An approximately 0.75l lidded pitcher from the 350 year old Touetsugama kiln of Arita, Japan. Made of Amakusa Touseki - porcelain stone mined from the..

Japanese pitcher with lid
£85.00
Hand sand-cast brass trivets from a foundry founded in 1897 in the Japanese city of Takaoka in the Toyama Prefecture. The castings are largely left ih..

Japanese brass trivets
£60.00 – £80.00
Unique wooden cutlery hand cut, ground, and finished by Inoue Hiroyuki of Atelier akarino-tane in Asahikawa City, of birch cut from the forests of the..

Otona, cutlery
£36.00
Small chlidren's forks and spoons hand cut, ground, and finished by Inoue Hiroyuki of Atelier akarino-tane in Asahikawa City, of birch cut from the fo..

Kodomo, children's cutlery
£34.50
A natural ox-horn paté or butter spreader of a type common before the advent of stainless steel as horn does not tarnish like silver or carbon ..

Pate spreader 149mm
£16.00
Natural ox-horn dessert, breakfast, or child's spoons hand cut, formed, and polished in Carnforth, at the last remaining horn-works in Britain. Th..

Horn spoon
£13.50
Natural ox-horn egg or baby spoons hand cut, formed, and polished in Carnforth, at the last remaining horn-works in Britain. The colours range from wh..

Egg or baby spoon
£8.00
Small salt or spice pinch dishes and spoons hand cut, formed, and polished in Carnforth, at the last remaining horn-works in Britain. The colours rang..

Salt or spice servers
£7.00 – £14.50
Natural horn bowls in two sizes, small approximately 100mm in diameter, or large at about 160mm. Ranging from white, to translucent amber, through all..

Horn bowls
£25.50 – £36.00
A choice of fuki-urushi lacquered bowls, a smaller miso and serving bowl of golden red sakura (Japanese cherry), or a larger deep ramen bowl of dark a..

Seto Susumu bowls
£75.00 – £120.00
A turned beech bowl about 14cm in diameter. Traditionally a muesli bowl, but also being 'shatterproof' a good alternative to plastic baby, children's,..

Wooden baby or cereal bowl
£10.00
Hand turned deep rimmed plates and bowls of various sizes made indigenous hardwoods (mostly ash and sycamore) in the workshop of Alistair Phillips, am..

Hand turned hardwood plates & bowls
£16.00 – £25.00
Designed by Maija Isola of marimekko in 1960, but reputedly based upon a traditional bowl she had found and fallen in love with at what we now might c..

Mariskooli bowls
£20.00 – £49.00
Fat white glazed stoneware berry bowls used for the washing, storage, and serving of berries, soft, and summer fruits, the holes allowing drainage as ..

Stoneware berry bowls
£24.00 – £48.00
A chrome plated pressed steel bottle opener from Germany which has rather more to it than first impressions might suggest. Not only does this easily r..

Hermetus bottle opener & sealer
£6.50
A choice of three hand poured sand-cast brass bottle openers from a foundry founded in 1897 in the central Japanese city of Takaoka in Toyama Prefectu..

Ihada bottle openers
£30.00 – £50.00
A choice of cast iron bottle openers with a baked black urushi finish, one designed after the shape of a three leafed clover or key, the other being f..

Iron bottle openers, four leaf or clover
£30.00 – £35.00
A cast iron bottle opener, with a baked red oxide urushi finish, designed to rest inverted over the neck of a bottle for storage or serving, and to pr..

Red iron bottle opener
£45.00
Hand sand-cast brass and silver cutlery from a foundry founded in 1897 in the Japanese city of Takaoka in the Toyama Prefecture, Japan. Created by Oji..

Ihada brass and silver cutlery
£40.00 – £74.50
Heirloom quality dishwasher-safe versions of this very traditional English cream handled cutlery style, still being made in Sheffield - home since 163..

Cream handled Sheffield made cutlery
£18.50 - £90.00
In Germany porcelain boards such as this one would traditionally be used to serve breakfast, that is cold meats, cheeses, preserves and bread. Here wh..

Breakfast boards
£23.50 – £26.50
White vitreous enamel 21cm plates or 14cm and 18cm bowls, suitable for eating, serving, use over direct heat, or in the oven, and brilliant for campin..

Austrian enamel plates and bowls
£12.50 – £14.00
Pairs of hand dipped unbleached natural beeswax candles from Cumbria, made of wax from mostly English, Scottish, and occasionally European and African..

Hand-dipped beeswax candles
£1.20 – £17.50
Wa-rosoku (hand rolled candles) renowned for their steady burning and even flame. Made of rice bran wax, a hard yellow wax extracted from the otherwis..

Rice bran wax candles
£21.00
Teapot A simple interpretation of the classic flat Japanese teapot grown out of a collaboration between Oji Masanori, Susumuya tea-house, and Tatsuo U..

Susumuya Tea-ware
£32.50 – £145.00
Hand-thrown in Yarnton, Oxfordshire, in a buff stoneware clay mined in South Staffordshire, this small range of tableware is the result of a collabora..

Evenlode tableware
£10.00 – £22.00
In 1920 Bernard Leach returned from 11 years in Japan to found (with Hamada Shōji) a Pottery in St Ives. Inspired by the ideals of the Mingei folk art..

New Leach Standard Ware
£9.00 – £32.00
A collaboration between the Leach Pottery and Objects of Use, this hand thrown porcelain has a slightly blue toned ying ching glaze brushed around the..

Porcelain New Leach Standard Ware
£13.00 - £70.00
Hand-thrown in small batches, this range of stoneware is the creation of a husband and wife team based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. Once thrown and ..

Pottery West, Sheffield stoneware
£22.00 - £54.00
Very pale blue or brown translucent glazed porcelain tea-ware from Gifu Prefecture in central Japan. Part of a range of simple everyday yet high quali..

Mizu-mizu tea-ware
£15.00 – £60.00
120cl clear. Designed in 1932 when the firm of Karhula (which later merged with iittala) held a competition for a new generation of affordable pressed..

Aino Aalto pitcher
£89.00
A pair of raw cast pure tin (≈99.8%) sake cups, generous shot or small wine glasses, or small tumblers; hand poured, chased, and finished by Nousaku, ..

Futae, tin cups
£137.50
Based on the original red Airam vacuum flasks of 1934 this all stainless steel bodied twin walled cup keeps drinks either hot or cold with the efficac..

Finnish thermal drinks cup, 0.35l
£14.50
A solid brass bodied manual coffee mill with hardened tool steel conical burrs originally manufactured for the production of finely powdered Turkish c..

Brass coffee mill
£119.00
An exceptionally well made 18/10 (18% chromium, 10% nickel) stainless steel whistling kettle from the company of Riess Kelomat, of Ybbsitz, Austria. T..

Ybbsitz whistling kettle
£75.00
A round headed spoon with a longish fine handle, of a type traditionally used for the serving or yoghurt, pickles, or preserves, as it neither tarnish..

Ox-horn yoghurt and preserve spoon
£10.00
A simple creamy-white cow-bone spoon cut, shaped, and polished by hand in Carnforth, Lancashire in the workshops of Britain's last remaining commercia..

Bone egg spoon
£6.50
A simple but ingenious device to assist in the peeling of oranges. Cow-bone. The sharpened hook is used to score and cut the skin into four quarters w..

Orange peeler
£9.00
A natural ox horn condiment set, suitable for salt, spices, mustards, and relishes. Horn will not tarnish, or taint food, a superior and natural alter..

Condiment set
£25.50
For those who enjoy cocktails, be they long, short, soft, or spirited, rapid cooling with crushed ice is a must, whether served packed into a highball..

The 'Cuby' ice crusher
£23.00
In Japan wa-rosoku (hand rolled candles) are renowned for their long burning and even flame. Made of a hard fat, not entirely dissimilar to tallow, bu..

Sumac wax candles
£25.00