Vase designed by coronation chicken creator for auction in Bandon

Constance Spry is best remembered nowadays as the co-creator of the spicy mayonnaise concoction — filling for millions of 21st-century airport sandwiches — in 1952

The vase designed by Constance Spry at 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.