Crockery inspired by Mrs Isabella Beeton's Book of Household Management
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Butter dish BLButter1/1 |
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Milk jug BLMilk1/1 |
| Breakfast cup 1 BLCup1/1 |
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Breakfast cup 2 BLCup1/2 |
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Mrs. Isabella Beeton was the Julia Childs or Delia Smith of the early Victorian age in Great Britain: a young, newly-married, middle-class woman whose guidance on cooking and managing a house (at a time, of course, when labour-saving machines were rare but servants common) gave confidence to thousands of young, newly-married, middle-class women who wanted an authoritative guide to running a home and keeping up appearances. The times were much like ours: there was great economic prosperity, growth and huge social change which led to a large number of people, in much better, and often quite different circumstances to their parents, who felt they needed to learn how to live up to their new houses and possessions, and to live, and entertain in the latest fashion. If the circumstances sound familiar then so should the story since "Mrs. Beeton" became a brand long before the term was widely understood; in fact perhaps even a 'franchise' since her book, refreshed by generations of editors, continued to be sold for decades and decades after Isabella's death at the age of only 28 (giving birth to her fourth child. Some things have, happily, changed.)
These charming pictures of cups and jugs illustrate the aspirational possessions of the ninteenth century. As tiles we think they will enhance your own home in the twenty-first.
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| A panel made from the corckery tiles, with a border |