VTG 2 Mugs Horse Drawn Buggy & Horse Rider Cork Carrigaline Pottery Co Ireland

Description

These are a set of 2 vintage mugs manufactures by the Carrigaline Pottery Company Ltd. in Cork Ireland between 1960's- 1970's. One of the scenes, on the mug, shows a horse drawn carriage with a driver, a man and woman and a groomsman; one of the men is losing his hat to the wind. The  other mug shows a rider and horse jumping a fence in the countryside.
The rims of these mugs are trimmed in gold, though it does show some wear
.
The handles also have some gold trimmed. These mugs have no cracks, chips or cracks.
Carrigaline Pottery
was a pottery business founded by Hodder Walworth Blacker Roberts (1878-1952), of Mount Rivers, Carrigaline, in
Carrigaline
,
County Cork
,
Ireland
in 1928. Its products bear the marks
Carrigaline Pottery
or
Carrig Ware
. For much of middle of the 20th century the pottery was the main source of employment in Carrigaline. It made its name in part by producing memorabilia for the 1932
Eucharistic Congress
and subsequent commemorative and souvenir items. In the 1970s the company suffered from financial difficulties going first into receivership, and then closing in 1979.