Vintage Mid Century Egg Cups Set of Three 🥚 Green White Ceramic Dining Decor

Description

View Vintage Mid Century Egg Cups Set of Three 🥚 Green White Ceramic Dining Decor with current marketplace pricing, condition, product images and item details. The photographs show two of the three; all three are included. A silver egg cup was recovered from Pompeii, buried by Vesuvius in AD 79. Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584) says witches could "sail in an egg shell.". 🥚 Vintage Mid-Century Tulip Egg Cups, Set of Three, Green to White Airbrushed Ceramic Three tulip-form pedestal egg cups with scalloped petal rims, sprayed from green at the rim to white, on glossy moss-green feet, with cream interiors. The photographs show two of the three; all three are included. 📋 SPECIFICATIONS Quantity: set of three egg cups Form: tulip bowl with petal panels and scalloped rim on a short stem and flared, paneled foot Glaze: airbrushed gradient, green to white; moss-green stem and foot; cream interior Color variation: rim green ranges from apple green to pale mint between cups Material: glazed ceramic Marks: unmarked, hollow feet with no maker's stamp Size: approximately 2.5 inches tall x 2 inches across the rim Era: mid-century 🔎 CONDITION Bright glaze with a clean color fade and intact scalloped rims on the photographed cups. Please view all photos. 📖 THE STORY Old cups. A silver egg cup was recovered from Pompeii, buried by Vesuvius in AD 79. Egg cup collecting is called pocillovy. Old folklore. Reginald Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584) says witches could "sail in an egg shell." In early-1800s Ireland the eater pushed a spoon through the empty shell so no witch could use it as a boat; in Pembrokeshire, Wales, shells were crushed or burned against witches said to have arrived from Flanders in eggshells. Pliny the Elder recorded eggshells being broken right after eating in the first century. Big end, little end. Jonathan Swift, the Anglo-Irish satirist, sent Lilliput and Blefuscu to war in Gulliver's Travels (1726) over which end of a boiled egg to crack, the origin of "big-endian" and "little-endian." The look. Sprayed gradient glazes on sculptural flower forms were a mid-twentieth-century kitchen favorite. Condition: Used. Category: Collectibles › Kitchen & Home › Dinnerware & Serveware › Egg Cups.

Type

Egg Cup

Shape

Round

Occasion

All Occasions

Original/Licensed Reproduction

Original

Color

Multicolor

Packaging

Unboxed

Material

Ceramic

Features

Easy to Fill

Time Period Manufactured

Mid-Century (1950s-1960s)

Finish

Green Ceramic

Vintage

Yes

Country of Origin

Japan