Handmade Stoneware Round Dinner Plate – Blue Ceramic Plate

Artichoke hand painted blue dinner plate

Harvest Round • Dinner Plate

1 Plate

£49.50

Harvest Round • Dinner Plate

£49.50

Handmade by independent makers

• Available in stock

Cobalt Blue • Handmade in Spain • Stoneware • Dinner Plate • Ø 23 cm × H 5 cm • Dishwasher & Microwave Safe

• Quantity to Order

The lunch that becomes the afternoon. A table outside, wherever outside means to you. A terrace, a garden, a windowsill with enough room for two glasses.

One artichoke, painted in cobalt blue that splashes across a clean round form. Bold, unhurried, taking up space the way good food does.

Oven, microwave and dishwasher safe · 23cm diameter · 5cm deep · No two are identical.

23 cm diameter · 5 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
• Processed within 10 days of receiving your return, back to your original payment method.

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.

Valencia has been a pottery region for centuries — shaped as much by its people as its clay. The workshops we work with are family-run, passed down through generations, part of a quiet but deeply rooted making culture that still runs along the banks of the Turia River.

When you hold one of these mugs, you are holding that continuity. The stoneware comes from this ground, thrown and painted by independent makers who have spent their lives learning what the material wants from them — and what they can ask of it.

No two pieces are the same, because no two hands are the same.

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.