Are these egg cups?

[Ryanne]

Someone returned them saying they were too big to be egg cups-

[Ryanne]

3.75″ tall, top opening is 2.5″ wide. An egg fits perfectly on the bottom opening, but that seems wrong.

[Amatino]

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1014529901/antique-white-cocoa-mug-large-porcelain

 

[Amatino]

Egg cups are a little smaller

https://www.etsy.com/listing/760141969/egg-cup-porcelain-thomas-white-plain-and?show_sold_out_detail=1&ref=nla_listing_details

[christinemariep]

It appears there can be a size variance, at least according to this description from an Amazon brand. They offer a smaller size to hold eggs still in the shell & a larger size they call a “double egg cup” for garnishing & seasoning a shelled egg.

[Antique Frog]

Tressemanes & Vogt, Limoges 1892-1907

“As Tressemanes & Vogt, they made high quality whiteware for export to the USA; distributed no doubt, through their New York office. ”

Were Fin de Siècle eggs bigger than their modern-day descendants?

[Ryanne]

yes, i was thinking they were for duck eggs??? ha ha, no idea.

[Antique Frog]

You could measure the volume in cubic centimetres- they might be jiggers (which term I’d never heard of until now.) Some figure like 25cc or 33cc might indicate they’re used for measuring.

[Retro Treasures WV]

Way too big for an egg. They are just cups.

[Amatino]

Retro, they don’t “do” egg cups in the States. 😀

I had get mine especially sent over from the UK. I had a breakfast event here, and nobody had a clue what to do with the breakfast! When I pull out my egg cups, I have to demonstrate how to eat a breakfast of boiled eggs and soldiers. It reminds me of that scene in Tarzan… LOL

[Retro Treasures WV]

Any time I see a person use an egg cup in a movie I instantly think “that person is a psycho serial killer”.

Lol!

[Antique Frog]

Slices top off egg with sharp knife, dips rectangle of pasty-white “Mother’s Pride” bread into barely-congealed egg yolk. Eats. Close-up of egg yolk dribbling down chin, transition to scene in dark alley with blood running down wall.

Anyway. Goose or seagull (murre) egg.

Poultry farming in 19th century California

[Amatino]

I see the dry British humour (slightly grisly) is alive and well! 😀

Which reminds me: my order of British bacon is in. I get to collect it tomorrow!

[Antique Frog]

I hope it’s dry-cured; a lot of British supermarket bacon oozes nasty white foam when it’s fried.

[Antique Frog]

I came across four of these large cups in a charity shop on Sunday- different designs so maybe someone’s collection. One of them had the crest and legend of a school in Nova Scotia, with the maker’s mark in the smaller end. So most likely big egg cups, for Canadians to put their big eggs in.

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