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Commissions

Made for your table

Plates, bowls and cups for restaurants, cafés and homes, in a glaze we develop together. Every piece is made to order, and we keep the recipe so a broken plate can be replaced.

Talk it through
A restaurant table set with speckled stoneware plates, celadon bowls and dark tenmoku cups
  • A setting

    For a small café or your own kitchen.

    • A dinner plate, a side plate and a bowl
    • Any glaze from the shop
    • Twelve settings or more
  • Your glaze

    For a restaurant with a menu of its own.

    • Glaze tests made for your food and room
    • A sample setting before the order
    • Shapes sized to your plating
    • Repeat orders for breakages
  • Signature pieces

    For one dish that needs its own plate.

    • A shape designed with your chef
    • Serving platters, sharing bowls, cups
    • Made in small runs

How a commission works

From the first conversation to a full shelf, usually ten to fourteen weeks.

  1. Talk it through

    Bring your menu, your room and a plate you love. We sketch shapes and sizes together.

  2. Glaze tests

    Twelve test tiles in two firings, so you see the colour on your table, in your light.

  3. A sample setting

    One of each piece to cook with and plate on for a week. We change what needs changing.

  4. Making

    Thrown, trimmed and fired in batches. We send photos from the wheel and the kiln.

  5. Delivered

    Packed and driven over by us within 60 miles. The recipe stays on file for repeats.

Pay a deposit

A deposit starts the glaze tests; it comes off the final invoice.

  • Glaze tests

    £120

    Twelve tiles, two firings

  • Sample setting

    £180

    One of each piece, yours to keep

Questions about commissions

Is it dishwasher and microwave safe?

Yes. Everything is fired to 1,280°C, which makes the clay as hard as glass, and every glaze is tested food safe.

What if a plate breaks?

Order one or a dozen whenever you like. We keep the clay, the glaze recipe and the shape on file.

Will every plate look the same?

The same size and glaze, but each one thrown by hand, so the speckle and the rim will vary a little. That's the point.

Do you deliver outside the county?

Yes, by pallet courier anywhere in the UK, or we drive it over ourselves within 60 miles.

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Pieces, classes, opening hours and commissions

Hello! Ask me about a piece in the shop, which class suits you, when the studio is open or how commissions work.

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