Raise your baking game. Literally. This is the most elegant cake stand I’ve found, and WOW! it makes a cake look incredible. It is made using elegant fine bone china (which, despite its deceptively fragile appearance, is actually the toughest ceramic). It has a wonderfully wobbly edge which is hand painted in cobalt blue. It comes boxed too so makes an excellent gift for a master baker but also means it can be safely stored in between bakes. (…proper pictures coming very soon, with cake, for now these snaps hopefully give an indication of the beautiful form.)

Notes: Fine Bone China with a cobalt blue rim

Size: h: 9.5 cm / w: 24 cm

We’re not advocating that you take to ‘running through the town’ (in your nightgown or otherwise)  but this is a Wee Willie Winkie candle holder if ever there was one. This beauty is made of fine bone china which is the strongest of ceramics and the clever saucer catches any waxy drips preserving your surfaces and tablecloths. And of course, it is handcrafted here in the UK and the indigo rim is hand painted. It makes a great gift too as the packaging is great.

Notes: Fine Bone China with an indigo rim

People are funny about coffee, aren't they? They have habits and rituals. Let this strong and delicate mug join your coffee club. It's a beautiful piece of design that sits well in your hand, the 'dimple' detail gives texture to the smooth glazed surface and makes the hand-painted blue handle all the more striking. And, it comes in a lovely box, making a wonderful gift for a coffee-loving friend. 

Colour: White Fine Bone China mug with a deep blue hand-painted handle

Size: height 7.3cm x diameter 6.9cm. Capacity 7oz

Notes: these can go in the dishwasher, but they're bone china so do be careful. 

Handmade in Fine Bone China this Cobalt Egg Cup with it’s wobbly hand painted cobalt ring is classically simple and discrete contemporary all at once. Neither fashion-forward and faddy nor traditional and trite, this is an egg cup that your soldiers will stand proud on for years to come.

Size: w: 13.5 cm / h: 13.5 cm

Notes: You can put this in the dishwasher, but be a bit careful, wont you.

Simple but never plain. Feldspar Studio have designed a soap dish that will fit neatly into any bathroom. Made by hand in the UK from fine bone china, this soap dish has deep ridges ensuring that your soap won’t go soggy in a soap-suds puddle  as the air can circulate more freely than usual. Fine hand-painted Cobalt lines on the rim and ridges give the dish a sketch-like appearance. 

My Nana would only drink tea from a fine bone china cup. She would have been very happy with this mug. It is perfectly balanced, both delicate and strong with a deliberately subtle 'dimple' detail in the material. It comes beautifully boxed so it makes a really lovely gift.

Colour: White Fine Bone China mug with a deep blue hand-painted handle

Size: height 8.6cm x diameter 8cm. Capacity 12oz

Notes: these can go in the dishwasher, but they're bone china so do be careful. 

Espresso. A single shot. The wake-up shot-in-the-arm for coffee purists. Coming carefully boxed, this is the perfectly packaged gift for the coffee aficionados in your life.

Colour: White Fine Bone China mug with a deep blue hand-painted handle

Size: height 4.9cm x diameter 4.7cm. Capacity 2.5oz

Notes: these can go in the dishwasher, but they're bone china so do be careful. 

A butter dish. I don’t know what to say apart from an emphatic: ‘this is it’. The best butter dish you can find (…and I’ve looked!) Made in discretely dimpled pure white bone china with a fine hand-painted handle in cobalt blue. What better housing could there possibly be for your sunshine yellow salty butter? (oh, and it comes in a nice box too).

Size: height 9.3cm x length 14.5cm x width 10cm

Notes: hand wash in soapy water