Wheel-thrown in speckled stoneware and hand-painted with porcelain slip and cobalt decoration, glaze-fired to 1250°C

A generous footed bowl with pulled scroll handles — functional as well as decorative, a good size for displaying a large bunch of flowers. Used here with a flower frog in the base. Or as a serving bowl for fruit etc. As with all handmade work, each piece is entirely its own: small variations and gentle imperfections are part of the process, not in spite of it. This one has a nice wonk but does sit flat. Where the glaze sits thicker, you may notice some natural crazing over time.

My influences are wide and ranging — essentially a cumulative love of the history of ceramics: 12th–17th century Persian painted pottery, Iznik Ottoman ceramics, Imari ware, Delft ware, the forms and traditions of British studio and medieval pottery. A magpie's hoard. What connects them, I think, is a love of the handmade mark: the evidence that someone, somewhere, made something alive with their hands.

Care: Handwash only. Dimensions: 16cm H × 34cm W