Every pot arrives with its making.
1.24 kg of Douro stoneware, wedged forty turns and slapped onto the wheel head.
Coned up and pressed down three times, until the clay runs true under still hands.
Thumbs find the middle. An eleven-millimetre floor is pressed flat and compressed.
Three pulls lift the wall to 21 cm. The belly swells, the neck is collared in.
Trimmed leather-hard, dried nine days, bisqued, then fired to cone 10 at 1,280 °C.
Dipped in moss celadon, signed on the foot, and listed with all six frames.
How listing works
Six frames, filmed by the potter, attached to every pot we sell.
- 01Wedged
1.24 kg of Douro stoneware, wedged forty turns and slapped onto the wheel head.
- 02Centred
Coned up and pressed down three times, until the clay runs true under still hands.
- 03Opened
Thumbs find the middle. An eleven-millimetre floor is pressed flat and compressed.
- 04Pulled
Three pulls lift the wall to 21 cm. The belly swells, the neck is collared in.
- 05Fired
Trimmed leather-hard, dried nine days, bisqued, then fired to cone 10 at 1,280 °C.
- 06Listed
Dipped in moss celadon, signed on the foot, and listed with all six frames.
Out of the kiln this week
214 potters in 31 countries. Each pot is one of one, shipped double-boxed from the studio that threw it.
Tenmoku rice bowl
€64Kenji Arai, Mashiko
Iron stoneware · 640 g
Shino bud bottle
€92Marta Lis, Kraków
Porcelain-stoneware · 410 g
Ash-glazed yunomi
€38Aoife Byrne, Cork
Wood-fired · 290 g
Cobalt storage jar
€176Inês Varela, Porto
Douro stoneware · 1.3 kg