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A thrown stoneware cup with blue-black vertical stripes on a matching saucer, filled with coffee

Striped tea cup

£34

Thrown in a buff stoneware that fires to the colour of toast, striped by hand, and sized for the cup of tea you actually drink rather than the one on the packet.

Glaze

Four left in the dark stripe. Made in batches of twelve, about once a month.

Size and weight

9 cm tall, 8 cm across the rim, 230 ml to the brim. 290 g. Every piece is thrown by hand, so each is a few millimetres different.

Care

Dishwasher safe on an eco cycle. Not for the microwave: the stripe glaze carries iron, and iron and microwaves do not get on.

Delivery and returns

Posted in two to four days, wrapped in paper we can take back. Return within thirty days if it is not right in your hand.

Also from the studio

The tall vase

Turn it over before you decide: drag it, or focus it and use the arrow keys. £68.

3D model: "Ceramic Vase 02" by James Ray Cock via Poly Haven, CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication).

A conical tea bowl with a glossy black glaze and an unglazed foot
Tea Bowl (Chawan) with Leaf LACMA 58.49.5 (1 of 2)

The bowl we keep going back to

Not ours, and not for sale: a tea bowl from a museum collection, a photograph of which is pinned above the wheel. Everything on this page is an attempt at the way its glaze stops short of the foot.

Wooden shelving holding rows of handmade teapots, cups and bowls in brown and green glazes

The shelf by the kiln, on a firing day.

A fictional studio. The photographs are openly licensed and credited below from the record the fetch script wrote; the tea bowl is a real museum object, shown as a reference and not as a product.

  • “Coffee” by Eric__I_E — CC BY 2.0
  • “Tea Time” by Prayitno / Thank you for (12 millions +) view — CC BY 2.0
  • “Tea Bowl (Chawan) with Leaf LACMA 58.49.5 (1 of 2)” by Fæ — CC BY 2.0
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