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From another time, these stoneware bottles were filled with hot water and used to warm your feet or your bed (or both!). It's the original hot water bottle used from Victorian times through to the 1950s until flat rubber ones came along. This particular three pint bottle comes in great order with its original stopper in place. It was made by Denby and features a two-tone glaze in cream and brown with relief decoration around the stopper and on the carrying knob. Perfect for the cottage core look, they are stylish decorative objects nowadays and also make reliable door stops.
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This midcentury ceramic tile looks splendid framed, transformed into a work of art... and it is. Designed by British studio potter, Alan Wallmark, and produced by Pilkington, he hand-painted lots of variations of this sunburst theme in different glazes and hues. This is a particularly attractive one with a deep, dark teal centre radiating out into blurred mustard 'feathers' around the circle's circumference. Lovely condition and very much of its time, it dates to 1968.
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A dynamic, abstract lithograph by Irish artist, Charles Tyrrell, titled 'Untitled' and created in 1981. Tyrrell is a renowned Irish artist, probably best known for his paintings of distorted grid patterns. This limited edition print - just one of seven - is something special, not least because of its impressive scale. Professionally framed and surface mounted, his expressive, gestural mark-making is given plenty of space. Look closely and you will subtle bursts of pale blues and red intermingled with the greys and muted blacks. For me, this shows motion, a transient moment captured in a quick, graphic way.
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Giving a whole lot of 1970's kitschness are these fabulous French shot or small tumbler glasses. Each features a different, colourful horse-drawn carriage illustration - cabriolet, fiacre, caleche, mail coach and cab.
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Neat pair of ex school science lab, glass beakers in graduating sizes, one 250ml and one 100ml. Super little vessels for the bathroom, kitchen or for use as posy vases.
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For a big clustered impact, we have a set of five tall, thin, school science lab, volumetric flasks. These are just perfect for single stems. We love the blue 250ml stamp on each flask, reminding of of their former lives. A lot of fun!
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A pair of ex-school, science lab, conical glass flasks, ready for a more sedate, domestic life as quirky vases perhaps. Their graduated height - one is 300ml, the other 200ml - makes them a breeze to style on a shelf, mantelpiece or sideboard.
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A pair of ex-school, science lab, conical glass flasks, ready for a more sedate, domestic life as quirky vases perhaps. Their graduated height - one is 300ml, the other 200ml - makes them a breeze to style on a shelf, mantelpiece or sideboard.
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Presented as a set of four, we have these original, ex school science lab, glass beakers, used in classroom experiments for measuring and mixing. Sizes are 600ml, 300ml, 250ml and 100ml and they all have a lip for pouring. Use in the kitchen or use as unsual vessels and vases. These would make excellent styling pieces for a teenage bedroom too. Their graduated sizes lends them to being set out in a row.
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Set of three salvaged, science department, 500ml conical glass flasks with narrow necks. Made in Germany, they are fun, nostalgic pieces of glassware, great for quirky styling and unusual storage as they have their original glass stoppers. Use as a clustered set of three for stems or for tall, colourful candles.
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Remember these from your school days in the science lab? Set of three science department, 500ml glass flasks with round bottoms. Made in Germany, they are fun, nostalgic pieces of glassware, great for styling. It might seem obvious to state but because the bases are round, they don't stand up. If you were feeling adventurous, you could create a simple wooden plinth or suspend them by stringing them together and hanging them up.
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Depicting a cloudy coastal landscape, quite feasibly the beach at Wells, Norfolk, as it was acquired locally and the grassy sand dunes and long-stretching beach are very reminiscent of it there, this is a dreamy, perhaps moody, oil painting. We can see several figures strolling in the distance along the shoreline, taking in the sea air. Skilfully painted by someone who understood how use the textures of their brush marks to convey a place's atmosphere and space. We love the colour palette of soft blues, greys and greens, punctuated by specs of colour in the coats the people are wearing. The sky in particular is beautifully painted. It comes professionally mounted in a handsome floating frame that complements the canvas very well indeed. It is initialled GV and dates '62 although sadly this has no led us to the artist.
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