This large dish was made to hang on the wall or serve as a statement platter. The design draws inspiration from ancient Greek, Roman, and Persian pottery, with a touch of Delft influence in the border. Every element has been painted freehand, with sgraffito detail etched in using a fine pin blade.

Wheel-thrown in speckled stoneware and hand-painted with porcelain slip and underglaze decoration, glaze-fired to 1250°C before being overpainted with 24-carat gold lustre and fired once more at 780°C.

My influences are wide and a little obsessive — 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: 5cm H × 34cm W