Handmade Stoneware Bowls - Copper Mark

Copper Mark • Bowl

£26.00

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The one you put somewhere visible and leave there. A copper motif painted by hand at the centre of cream stoneware, detailed enough to reward a closer look.
Holds whatever it's given. Looks good holding nothing.

Dishwasher and oven safe · 11cm diameter · 5cm height · No two are identical.

5 cm height • 11 cm diameter • 0.60 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 mug/bowl/mini vase £4.50 · Set of 2 £6.00
• Free UK delivery on orders over £150.00

Europe
• Costs: 1 mug/bowl/mini vase £8.50 · Set of 2 £12.00

USA & Canada
• Costs: 1 mug/bowl/mini vase £18.00 · Set of 2 £30.00

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 leave this one out. On the kitchen counter, the bathroom shelf, the table by the door. It holds whatever needs holding that day: keys, rings, the last olive, a stone picked up somewhere. The rust moves through the cream differently in different light. Morning it's warm. Evening it's something else. Over time you stop deciding where it goes. It just finds its place.

The rust and cream in this bowl come from the same earth the makers work with every day. Valencia sits on mineral-rich land, red clay and iron running through the ground, the kind of earth that has been staining hands and firing kilns for centuries. The colours aren't chosen. They're found.

The workshops behind this collection are part of a ceramic tradition that has been running in this part of the world for over a thousand years, carried by artisans who brought their knowledge from Persia, through North Africa, across the Mediterranean. What's remarkable is that it never left. Not as museum craft, not as heritage tourism, just as a living practice, still running in the hands of independent makers who chose to stay, to work slowly, to keep making things the way they know how.

The world moved fast. They kept this as a sign of who they are.

Red earth mixed with quartz and feldspar, fired until it holds heat, resists water, lasts. High-fired twice, dense enough to start the morning with and look better for it over time.

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

The colours 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.