Emma Bridgewater Black Toast Hen Egg Crock

Store your eggs in a cool place in our Emma bridgewater collectable Black Toast Hen on Nest

All our Emma bridgewater products are unique and decorated by hand, and as well as decorating using hand-cut sponges, they also use litho decorating, or transfers, to create some of our more complicated and detailed patterns

ABOUT EMMA BRIDGWATER THE COMPANY:

A lot of people ask us whether there is a real Emma Bridgewater, and we are happy to say yes!

Emma Bridgewater Ltd is a British company owned and run by Emma (née Bridgewater) and Matthew Rice.

The core of the business is pottery, which is made with loving care in much the same way as it would have been in Victorian times when our factory was built.

The company was born in 1985 .

Staffordshire earthenware has had a world-wide reputation since Josiah Wedgwood pioneered his beautiful creamware in the early 1800s. When her shapes were sampled, she started experimenting with the forgotten decorative technique of sponge printing, applying simple patterns with a cut sponge. She showed these samples to a selection of buyers, who almost all placed orders, and the show was on the road.

Stoke-on-Trent, the midlands city known as The Potteries, became the focus of Emma’s working life. At first she had her designs made under contract, but within a few years her company acquired their own manufacturing facility and soon expanded into a big nineteenth century factory on the Caldon canal, where they still make all of their ceramics (with the exception of some lines such as plates, which are locally outsourced).

Today Emma’s husband Matthew also designs for Emma Bridgewater. Matthew indulges his passion for birdlife in the best-selling and highly collectible Birds range.

The mugs are made in a warm cream coloured earthenware which is a quintessential Staffordshire product Drawing on a long and well-evolved expertise and a tradition which stretches back 200 years