Vase designed by coronation chicken creator for auction in Bandon
By Designed Constance The Spry At Vase Hegarty's
Constance Spry is best remembered nowadays as the creator, with Rosemary Hume, of coronation chicken. The spicy mayonnaise concoction — filling for millions of 21st-century airport sandwiches — must have been revolutionary in these latitudes in 1952.
Derby-born Spry, who lived for a time in Ireland, was a creative, independent innovator and ahead-of-her-time businesswoman who ultimately employed 60 people at her flower decoration shop on South Audley Street in London.
Now a vase designed by Spry comes up at Hegarty's Stoneview Collection Part II online sale in Bandon on Wednesday (November 13). The twin fern-handled vase on a pedestal with unglazed exterior and glazed interior was produced around 1930 at Fulham Pottery. The estimate is €400-€800.
The sale offers antique furniture, silver, art, jewellery and collector's items including a Strahan console table and a landscape by William Langley.
Highlights from the first part of the collection included a Lusitania life jacket which made €1,050 at hammer over a top estimate of €400 and a pair of George II Irish silver candlesticks which sold for €2,900.