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The Chicken and The Egg: Celebrating Poultry Heritage, Home Grown Housing

This is a Tunbridge ware egg cup with a printed engraving of a sea front pasted onto the wood. This work was characteristic of Tunbridge Wells and Tonbridge, Kent, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is inscribed ‘Lyme Regis & Harbour’ with a picture of the scene above.

1 egg cup: wood; good condition

MERL ‘Associated information’ form – ‘[insert] 59/2 pn 60/2344 Dom. Serving food. [end insert] Name of Object: EGG CUP // Age…: - // Name and address of present owner: [...] Dorking, Surrey // Description of use to which it was put…: [pencil sketch] 3.25 8 x 4 cm (height x diam at base). Tunbridge ware. Picture of 'Lyme Regis & Harbour' on it. Inscribed 'LYME REGIS & HARBOUR’ with image above., MERL miscellaneous note – Gill, M.A.V. (1985) Tunbridge ware, Princes Risborough // Tunbridge ware is a form of decoratively inlaid woodwork in which a mosaic of tiny pieces of different coloured woods form a picture. This style of mosaic decoration developed in late 1820s around Tunbridge Wells and Tonbridge in Kent. The name ‘Tunbridge ware’ is also the term used to describe printed engravings and texts, some hand coloured, pasted onto light wood. This type of decoration was popular on holiday resort souvenirs.

Kent

Carved, Turned