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

Gift vouchers, or certificates in denominations of £10.00, £25.00, £50.00, or £100.00 of letter-pressed card produced for us in the printing workshop ..

Objects of Use gift certificates
£10.00 - £100.00
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
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
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
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 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
£37.50
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
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
£29.50 – £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
A choice of various coloured vitreous ceramic enamel teapots of approximately 1 litre, or more traditionally 6 cups capacity. Firing in a traditional ..

Ukrainian enamel teapots
£24.00
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
£7.50
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
£7.50
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
£6.00
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
£19.50 - £24.00
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
£20.00
A choice of various coloured 28cm diameter black rimmed vitreous ceramic enamel serving, prep, or cooking bowls. Firing in a traditional kiln results ..

Ukrainian enamel bowls – 28cm diameter
£24.00
8cm diameter, 8cm high vitreous ceramic enamel mokka pots or coffee boilers of pistachio and white, deep turquoise and white, or turmeric yellow and w..

Turkish enamel mokka pot
£16.50
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
£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 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
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
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 variously coloured vitreous ceramic enamel kettles of approximately 2 litre capacity and a maximum diameter of about 18cm. Firing in a tra..

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
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
£12.00
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
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
£24.00
Sandcast bronze tea cutlery from the Geochang Yugi workshop in Dooma-ri, Geochang-gun, South Korea. Founded in 1924 Geochang Yugi is now in its fourth..

Korean bronze tea cutlery
£16.50
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
Classically modern bistro style dining cutlery made in France of tumbled high carbon 18/10 stainless steel riveted to elegantly simple straight untrea..

French teak handled cutlery
£12.00 - £16.50
Classically modern bistro style small or additional dining cutlery made in France of tumbled high carbon 18/10 stainless steel riveted to elegantly si..

French teak handled small cutlery
£12.00 - £14.40
A classically modern bistro style cheese knife made in France of tumbled high carbon 18/10 stainless steel riveted to elegantly simple straight untrea..

French teak handled cheese knife - large, 25cm
£24.00
A classically modern bistro style serving spoon set made in France of tumbled high carbon 18/10 stainless steel riveted to elegantly simple straight u..

French teak handled serving set 26cm
£60.00
A classically modern bistro style tart slice made in France of tumbled high carbon 18/10 stainless steel riveted to elegantly simple straight untreate..

French teak handled tart slicer 27cm
£33.00
Stainless steel table cutlery from Brescia, Italy. Manufactured after patterns derived from archival designs and retaining the everyday practicality o..

Italian stainless steel four piece place setting
£27.00
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
Stainless steel table cutlery from Brescia, Italy. Manufactured after patterns derived from archival designs and retaining the everyday practicality o..

Italian stainless steel fish cutlery
£5.40
Stainless steel table cutlery from Brescia, Italy. Manufactured after patterns derived from archival designs and retaining the everyday practicality o..

Italian stainless steel dessert cutlery
£5.40 - £10.80
Stainless steel table cutlery from Brescia, Italy. Manufactured after patterns derived from archival designs and retaining the everyday practicality o..

Italian stainless steel serving cutlery
£12.00
Stainless steel table cutlery from Brescia, Italy. Manufactured after patterns derived from archival designs and retaining the everyday practicality o..

Italian stainless steel ladles
£18.00 - £25.50
Stainless steel table cutlery from Brescia, Italy. Manufactured after patterns derived from archival designs and retaining the everyday practicality o..

Italian stainless steel cake server
£18.00
Stainless steel table cutlery from Brescia, Italy. Manufactured after patterns derived from archival designs and retaining the everyday practicality o..

Italian stainless steel moka spoon
£4.50
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
Approximately 24cm in diameter and 3.5cm in depth, vitreous enamel plates from Ukraine. Available in red or green. Fired in a traditional kiln, which ..

Ukrainian enamel deep plates
£15.00
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
£1.50 – £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
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 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
A choice of blue-grey nuka glazed teapots, a smaller of one to two cups capacity, or larger of maybe 3 to 4 cups. After training in Cardiff and Gothen..

Jack Welbourne teapots
£65.00 - £110.00
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
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 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 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, 23cm
£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
A choice of mottled white glazed terracotta baking or serving dishes, hand shaped, glazed, and finished by the artisans of Maria Terracota in Porto de..

Portuguese terracotta round baking dishes
£12.00 - £40.00
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
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
£46.00
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
£12.50
A small wide bowl of a type called bolée traditionally (particularly in Brittany) used for drinking cidre, French cider, which is generally bottle con..

Breton cidre bowl
£15.00
100% linen table cloth, from the master weavers of Lapuan Kankurit, in the Ostrobothnian district of western Finland. In natural, un-dyed linen, with ..

Finnish washed linen table cloth natural, grey stripe
£125.00
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
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
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
£15.00
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
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
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
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 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 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
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 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
£8.40
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
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
Natural ox-horn salad servers - a longer handled spoon and 'fork'. Made from the horn of Nigerian Fulani Ankole cattle - a long horned domesticated be..

Ox-horn salad servers
£45.00
A small sandcast bronze dish from the Geochang Yugi workshop in Dooma-ri, Geochang-gun, South Korea. Founded in 1924 Geochang Yugi is now in its fourt..

Korean bronze dish
£36.00
A small sandcast bronze 'long plate', try or dish from the Geochang Yugi workshop in Dooma-ri, Geochang-gun, South Korea. Founded in 1924 Geochang Yug..

Korean bronze long plate
£75.00
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
£23.00
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
Individual five inch serrated stainless steel steak knives. The 'Authentique' is a range of classic black handled French pattern high carbon stainless..

K-Sabatier Authentique serrated steak knives
£33.50
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 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 ramekin
£12.00
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
A hand thrown individual serving or breakfast bowl with a blue-grey nuka glaze. After training in Cardiff and Gothenburg, Sweden, Welbourne set up stu..

Jack Welbourne bowl
£30.00
A hand thrown mid-sized serving or salad bowl with a blue-grey nuka glaze. After training in Cardiff and Gothenburg, Sweden, Welbourne set up studio i..

Jack Welbourne large deep bowl
£64.00
Small hand-thrown preserve, condiment, or trinket, jar with a blue-grey nuka glaze. After training in Cardiff and Gothenburg, Sweden, Welbourne set up..

Jack Welbourne mini jar
£24.00
A hand-thrown preserve, condiment, or trinket, jar with a blue-grey nuka glaze. After training in Cardiff and Gothenburg, Sweden, Welbourne set up stu..

Jack Welbourne small jar
£36.00
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 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 simple rustic mug, the simple form has a characteristic low rim designed to create a ridge for Jack's beautiful crackled glaze to form upon. After t..

Jack Welbourne standard mug, green ash
£28.00
Mottled and variably coloured 'honey' glazed terracotta stew or casserole pot. Hand shaped, glazed, and finished by the artisans of Maria Terracota in..

Portuguese terracotta stew pot, honey
£28.00
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