Marguerite Egg Cup

Named Marguerite – French for ‘daisy’ – this egg cup taps into Astier de Villatte’s preoccupation with 19th-century pottery. It’s handcrafted in the Parisian workshop from black terracotta clay and finished with a signature white glaze. Note the fine craftsmanship at play, highlighted in each petal-like curve.

Material: ceramic
Country of origin: France
Dimensions: 4.5cm (h) x 4.5cm (w) x 5.5cm (l) / 1.8" (h) x 1.8" (w) x 2.1" (l)
Cleaning: handwash only
Colour: white

Old friends Ivan Pericoli and Benoît Astier de Villatte met at the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, leading to the launch of Astier de Villatte in 1996. Since the beginning, they’ve been charmed with ideas of the imperfect, finding beauty in uneven glazes, dark pockmarks and subtle ripples. But these details only emphasise the craft tale behind each piece – stories that start with a single sheet of black terracotta clay extracted from Parisian quarries. They follow traditional Roman methods to bring each ‘dream object’ to life, shaping and inscribing each one with the potter’s initials and finishing with a high-shine white porcelain glaze.

Product number: 2212602119

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