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

Table
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
Individualy sold intensely coloured 25cl versions of the classic Duralex tumblers. Designed in 1927 and produced since 1945 using Saint-Gobain’s paten..

Picardie colours tumblers
£3.00
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
An Imperial quarter pint heavyweight tankard with a plain polished finish and simple C shaped handle following a simple unadorned design used in Victo..

Quarter pint plain Sheffield pewter tankard
£37.50
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
£12.00
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
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
8cm diameter, 8cm high vitreous ceramic enamel jugs of pistachio and white, blue and white, or turmeric and white. Firing in a traditional kiln result..

Turkish enamel milk jugs
£15.00
A 2.5 litre 20cm high wide mouthed vitreous ceramic enamel water and serving jug from Ukraine. Firing in a traditional kiln results in slight variatio..

Ukrainian enamel jug water 2.5l
£22.50
1.5 litre 17cm high, 12cm diameter vitreous ceramic enamel utensil pots with handles from Ukraine. Useful for the storage of kitchen utensils or other..

Ukrainian milk or utensil pots
£16.50
A choice of various coloured 10cm diameter black rimmed vitreous ceramic enamel serving, prep, or cooking bowls. Firing in a traditional kiln results ..

Ukrainian enamel bowls – 10cm diameter
£6.00
A choice of 0.4 litre 8cm diameter 8cm high black rimmed and various coloured vitreous ceramic enamel mugs from Ukraine. Firing in a traditional kiln ..

Ukrainian enamel mugs, 0.4l
£6.00
About 2.5 litre, 15cm diameter and 20cm high lidded milk cans or kitchen caddies from Ukraine, useful for storage, fermenting, or holding compostable ..

Ukrainian milk cans / kitchen caddies
£30.00
A choice of various coloured 15cm diameter black rimmed vitreous ceramic enamel serving, prep, or cooking bowls. Firing in a traditional kiln results ..

Ukrainian enamel bowls – 15cm diameter
£9.00
A choice of 0.25 litre 8cm diameter 5.5cm high black rimmed and various coloured vitreous ceramic enamel low mugs from Ukraine. Firing in a traditiona..

Ukrainian enamel low mugs, 0.25l
£5.00
A choice of various coloured 24cm diameter black rimmed vitreous ceramic enamel serving, prep, or cooking bowls. Firing in a traditional kiln results ..

Ukrainian enamel bowls – 24cm diameter
£15.00
A choice of 1 litre (about 20 x 12 x 5cm) or 1.5 litre (23 x 14 x 6cm) lidded vitreous enamel storage boxes from Ukraine. Firing in a traditional kiln..

Ukrainian enamel cooking and storage boxes
£15.00 - £22.50
Approximately 18cm diameter (across the lid) 1.5 litre lidded vitreous enamel cooking and storage pots from Ukraine. Firing in a traditional kiln resu..

Ukrainian enamel cooking and storage pots
£15.00
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
£24.00 – £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
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
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 choice of coffee pots of brown or white vitreous enamel over steel. Enamel is made by the high temperature fusion of powdered glass slurry to in thi..

Japanese enamel coffee pots
£80.00 – £90.00
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
£22.50 – £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
£15.00
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
A choice of pistachio, phthalo-green, yellow, or white vitreous ceramic enamel kettles of approximately 2 litre capacity and a maximum diameter of abo..

Ukrainian enamel kettles, 2 litres
£35.00
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
Circular wooden cutting and serving boards shaped with a handle from local maritime pine - a relatively hard and resinous soft wood native to Iberia, ..

Portuguese circular chopping and serving boards
£12.00 - £55.00
Wooden cutting and serving boards shaped from local maritime pine - a relatively hard and resinous soft wood native to Iberia, south west France, and ..

Portuguese rectangular chopping and serving boards
£27.50 - £45.00
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 choice of dining fork or spoon, both of white vitreous enamel over stainless steel. Enamel is made by the high temperature fusion of powdered glass ..

Japanese enamel dining fork or spoon
£10.00
A choice of dessert fork or teaspoon, both of white vitreous enamel over stainless steel. Enamel is made by the high temperature fusion of powdered gl..

Japanese dessert and tea cutlery
£8.50
A three piece baby's cutlery set of white vitreous enamel over stainless steel. Enamel is made by the high temperature fusion of powdered glass slurry..

Japanese enamel baby cutlery set
£20.50
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
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
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
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
£10.00
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 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
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
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
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
A hand carved and lightly sanded wooden tasting spoon - although it works just as well for serving or mixing. Cut and worked from locally growing timb..

Columbian tasting spoon
£10.00
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
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
£1.50 – £26.50
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
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 set of three spouted mixing bowls in reduction fired white dolomite. Measuring approximately 5.5cm high by 12.5cm, 7cm by 17cm, and 9.5cm by 22.5cm...

Leach Standard Ware mixing bowl set
£72.00
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..

Leach Standard Ware teapot
£96.00
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
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..

Leach Standard Ware ramekin
£12.00
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
A choice of generously proportioned flared mugs in black tenmoku or blue-grey nuka glazes. After training in Cardiff and Gothenburg, Sweden, Welbourne..

Flared mug, Jack Welbourne
£28.00
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
A mottled and variably coloured 'honey' glazed terracotta breakfast, soup, or prep bowl. Hand shaped, glazed, and finished by the artisans of Maria Te..

Portuguese terracotta table or prep bowl
£8.50
A mottled and variably coloured 'honey' glazed terracotta mixing or serving bowl. Hand shaped, glazed, and finished by the artisans of Maria Terracota..

Portuguese terracotta mixing or serving bowl
£22.00
A mottled and variably coloured 'honey' glazed terracotta small sauce and serving ladle. Hand shaped, glazed, and finished by the artisans of Maria Te..

Portuguese terracotta sauce ladle
£6.00
Mottled and variably coloured 'honey' glazed terracotta soup or casserole pots. Hand shaped, glazed, and finished by the artisans of Maria Terracota i..

Portuguese terracotta soup pots
£19.50 - £48.00
Mottled white glazed terracotta rectangular baking or serving dishes in a choice of two sizes. Hand shaped, glazed, and finished by the artisans of Ma..

Portuguese terracotta rectangular baking dishes
£26.50 - £33.00
A mottled white glazed terracotta utensil or storage pot. Hand shaped, glazed, and finished by the artisans of Maria Terracota in Porto de Mós, centra..

Portuguese terracotta utensil pot
£27.50
Slightly confusingly known by local producers as a Pinte Cidre or Pinte vin (Cider Pint, or Wine Pint) but actually having a capacity of just over a l..

Pinte cidre, 1.0l stoneware table jug
£40.00
A 100% 'European Masters of Linen’ linen, herringbone weave table runner, measuring 43cm x 150cm. A timeless classic, this Scandinavian blue and white..

Finnish linen herringbone table runner
£39.00
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
A 0.6 litre stoneware oil or vinegar drizzling bottle with a clear ash ‘naturel’ glaze. Hand made in the northern Loire valley by Poterie Digoin, foun..

Stoneware oil or vinegar bottle
£33.00
Classic chromed steel and ribbed glass sugar dispenser or portioner of a type familiar from greasy spoon cafes and dreams of American diners. Designed..

Sugar dispenser
£9.50
A simple black vitreous enamel on pressed steel coffee cup with a flared straight sided conic sectional form. Holds about 125ml. From the workshops of..

Black enamel coffee cup
£22.00
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
An approximately 9cm diameter, 13cm high, 500ml capacity pressed steel vitreous enamelled straight tapered side tumbler with white splatter over a bla..

Turkish enamelware high tumbler
£21.50
An approximately 13cm diameter, 1.0l capacity pressed steel vitreous enamelled teapot with white splatter over a black enamel base. Bornn Enamel is a ..

Turkish white on black splatterware teapot, 1 litre
£44.50
A stainless steel carrying pot, with tray insert. The closure doubles as a pan handle when in use as a pan, and the tray insert allows for separation ..

14cm camping or lunch pot
£19.50
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
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
£85.00
A hard anodised aluminium kettle with a thick flat machined base for even and rapid boiling, cast spout, turned Wyre forest oak handles, and stainless..

Shropshire kettle
£125.00
A set of salad serving spoons of white vitreous enamel over stainless steel. Enamel is made by the high temperature fusion of powdered glass slurry to..

Japanese enamel salad set
£25.00
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
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
A simple stoneware draining shallow bowl or dish for washed berries or salad fruits and vegetables. Hand made since 1875 by Poterie Digoin, in the nor..

French berry dish
£21.00
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
Classic serrated steak knives with stainless steel blades and palmadera (a kind of compressed resin infused wood, giving better water resistance) hand..

Pallarès palmadera handle steak knife
£8.00
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
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
A small flared coffee cup with an internal ‘blue grey’ glaze. After training in Cardiff and Gothenburg, Sweden, Welbourne set up studio in Cardiff, wh..

Coffee cup, Jack Welbourne
£28.00
An internally 'blue-grey' glazed mid sized serving bowl. After training in Cardiff and Gothenburg, Sweden, Welbourne set up studio in Cardiff, where h..

Large bowl, Jack Welbourne
£64.00
A spouted jug fired in a ‘blue grey’ glaze. After training in Cardiff and Gothenburg, Sweden, Welbourne set up studio in Cardiff, where he produces wh..

Spouted jug, Jack Welbourne
£64.00
A small tea or breakfast bowl fired in a ‘blue grey’ glaze. After training in Cardiff and Gothenburg, Sweden, Welbourne set up studio in Cardiff, wher..

Tea bowl, Jack Welbourne
£30.00
A simple tumbler fired in a ‘blue grey’ glaze. After training in Cardiff and Gothenburg, Sweden, Welbourne set up studio in Cardiff, where he produces..

Tumbler, Jack Welbourne
£22.00
A mottled and variably coloured 'honey' glazed terracotta water jug with a capacity of approximately 2.5l. Hand shaped, glazed, and finished by the ar..

Portuguese terracotta table jug
£32.50
A mottled white glazed terracotta baking or serving dish. Hand shaped, glazed, and finished by the artisans of Maria Terracota in Porto de Mós, centra..

Portuguese terracotta round baking dish
£19.50
French stoneware tumblers originally produced exclusively by The Manufacture des Grès et Poteries for the containment of soft cheese, these are now pr..

French stoneware goblet, 0.18l
£10.00