Miffy Ceramic Ware
Welcome to our Miffy collection – a range of contemporary ceramic nursery products that can be given and treasured.Modern shapes that can be used easily and everyday, coupled to fresh clean patterns featuring the agelessly chic design icon Miffy.
Presented in beautiful gift boxes with coordinated tissue wrapping paper. Ideal as baby gifts, birthday gifts, christening gifts or for any special occasion.
Miffy is a picture book character in the form of a small female rabbit drawn by Dick Bruna. Her original Dutch name is Nijntje which stems from a toddler's pronunciation of the word "konijntje" meaning "little rabbit".
She was created in 1955, after Dick Bruna had been telling his one-year-old son Sierk stories about a little rabbit similar to the toy bunny he had played with whilst on holiday.
The first Miffy book was Miffy at the Seaside.
Miffy is drawn in a very minimalist style, requiring only a few lines and one or two primary colours (a value we have continued with during our products development).
The Miffy books each contain sixteen pages of story. Each page has one illustration and four lines of verse.
Many think that Miffy is Japanese, the Miffy brand is very popular in Japan and there is a lot of Japanese-made Miffy merchandise. However, Miffy is a Dutch character. In Bruna's hometown, Utrecht there is now a square named after Nijntje, the Nijntjepleintje and in 2006 the “Dick Bruna Huis” museum was opened.
Miffy celebrated her fiftieth birthday in 2005, which has been celebrated in cities across the world, in the UK the Manchester Art Gallery, The Central Library in Edinburgh and The Museum of Childhood in London.
