Woodfired Poppy Mug 13oz

A poppy and buds bloom across the surface of this handmade, woodfired mug. The piece was made on the pottery wheel by Rob and then given to Jess to illustrate (this piece was created with a technique called Mishima - incising and then inlaying into the drawing, one of the last she created with this technique before her illness). The poppy, to me, symbolizes not only beauty, but of the imagination (we can blame the Wizard of Oz for this…)

The interior glaze is a soft peach shino and the exterior is alive with the toasty colors of wood firing, and the yellow tones from the white slip reacting in the kiln.

All pieces are made by hand, and have the traces of being touched and formed on them - sometimes that’s asoft unevenness, or gently waving rim, or the fingerprint of the artist in the clay, or being able to see where drawings made directly on the surface started and stopped. We hope you’ll prize the “imperfections” that make them truly human like we do.