Handmade Stoneware Dinner Plate – Cobalt Blue Ceramic Plate

Cobalt Pomegranate • Plate

£49.00

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The pomegranate, ancient symbol of abundance, of the table that keeps giving, of people who come back. Leaves turning outward from the centre, the way a good meal opens up. Painted in cobalt blue.

During the Al-Andalus period, beauty was a form of knowledge. Patterns a way of understanding the world, not just decorating it.

Handmade and hand-painted in Spain. No two are identical.

Oven, microwave and dishwasher safe · 22 cm diameter · 4 cm deep

22 cm diameter · 4 cm deep · 1.20 kg
Handmade in Spain
Dishwasher, oven and microwave safe
Built for daily use. No special treatment needed.

DELIVERY
All orders dispatched within 5 working days

United Kingdom
• Costs: 1 plate £6.00 · 2 plates £11.00 · 4 plates £20.00
• Free UK delivery on orders over £150.00

Europe
• Costs: 1 plate £10.00 · 2 plates £18.50 · 4 plates £32.00

USA & Canada
• Costs: 1 plate £22.00 · 2 plates £40.00 · 4 plates £70.00

RETURNS
• You have 30 days from delivery to return anything, for any reason. Email team@cardoonstudio.com with your order number and we'll take it from there.
• If something arrived faulty or not as described, we'll refund your delivery charge too.

REFUNDS
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I tend to reach for these when setting a table that isn't too formal, something that works just as well indoors as it does outside. They sit easily with linen, simple glassware, whatever is already there. The blue lifts the table without taking over. Over time you start mixing them in without thinking. They become part of how you set the table.

The pomegranate has meant abundance for longer than anyone can trace. In Al-Andalus, it gave its name to a city. Granada. The fruit and the place, inseparable.

For eight centuries, this civilisation ran on a belief that beauty and knowledge were the same thing. Their scholars translated Aristotle. Their poets wrote about longing. Their craftsmen covered every surface in pattern, because leaving something plain felt like a kind of ignorance.

That world evolved. The patterns stayed.

Workshops, families, and communities kept working the same tradition without making a document of it. Not preservation. Just practice.

These pieces are made in Valencia, by hands that grew up with this visual language. The pomegranate still at the centre. Still meaning what it always meant.

Red earth mixed with quartz and feldspar, fired until it holds heat, resists water, lasts. High-fired twice, dense enough to go from oven to table without complaint, and look better for it over time.

Each plate is hand-thrown and hand-painted, so the variations you see, where the cobalt pooled, where the brush lifted, are the record of how it was made. Not inconsistency. The maker's hand, still visible.

The motifs are painted beneath the glaze, not over it. They become part of the clay itself. They will not fade.

This is what Glenn Adamson, in Fewer Better Things*, calls 'material intelligence'; a knowledge that lives not just in the hands, but in an understanding of how clay moves, resists, and transforms; how it holds heat, absorbs light, and feels right in the hand.