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

A small/medium vase with pulled scroll handles — functional as well as decorative, and a good size for a bunch of flowers from the garden (shown here with a flower frog in the base).

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. Where the glaze sits thicker, you may notice some natural crazing over time.

My influences are broad — 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: 17cm H × 14cm W

Please note: this listing represents a small collection of 10 vases. The main picture may not show the exact vase you receive — please see the group shots to get a sense of the variation between individual pieces.