Handmade stoneware Vase. Rust Ink Spain

Rust Ink • Little Vase

£32.00

★★★★★ Rated 4.8 on Google · Read reviews

The vase that looks like it grew somewhere. Rust lines drawn across cream stoneware, sparse and unhurried. Put it next to a dried branch and you won't know where one ends and the other begins.

Hand-thrown and hand-painted in Spain · 17cm height · 8cm diameter · No two are identical.

17 cm height x 8 cm diameter
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
• Processed within 10 days of receiving your return, back to your original payment method.

I tend to place something like this where things don’t feel too arranged – on a shelf, a windowsill, or the edge of a table. It works just as well empty as it does with a few stems, and the soft, uneven tones give it a quiet presence without drawing too much attention. Over time, you find yourself moving it around without thinking, letting it settle wherever it feels right.

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.

Made from local Spanish stoneware, high-fired for full vitrification, giving low porosity, high strength, and strong thermal resistance. Each mug is hand-thrown and hand-printed, so natural variations reflect the material’s behaviour in the kiln and the maker’s control of it.

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.