Country Diary Hawthorn Blossom Mug

Porcelain hawthorn mug showcasing floral details from the exquisitely observed illustrations of Edith Holden (1871-1920), the Birmingham-trained artist and art teacher who spent 1906 recording the English countryside in words and watercolour. Her journal combined the skills of a professional botanical illustrator with the sensibility of a woman deeply attuned to the rhythms of the natural world, giving her paintings of hawthorn blossom, wild violets, red admirals and orange-tip butterflies a quality of personal delight that no published natural history quite matches. When her journal was finally published in 1977 as The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady, it became a phenomenon, touching something deep in readers across the world. Wrapping around the mug, the design mixes blossoming hawthorn with bumblebees and butterflies in her characteristically delicate palette. Individually boxed in plastic-free packaging. Lovely for any admirer of Edith Holden or for anyone who finds the hedgerows and garden borders of the British countryside inexhaustibly beautiful.

Pair with our matching Country Diary Foxgloves Mug and Country Diary Poppies Mug

Colour: Off-White, Yellow, Green
Porcelain
9cm tall, 8cm dia, 11cm dia including handle
Capacity 290ml
11.5 x 10 x 9cm gift box
Dishwasher and microwave safe