Name: Sunline • Espresso Cups • Set of 4
Brand: My Store
Price: 70.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

A small ceramic espresso cup with a glossy red top half and a speckled beige bottom half, photographed against a plain light background.

Sunline • Espresso Cups • Set of 4

£70.00

Sunline • Espresso Cups • Set of 4

£70.00

Handmade by independent makers

• Available in stock

Handmade in Spain • Stoneware • Set of 4 espresso cups • Ø 6 cm × H 7 cm • Dishwasher & Microwave Safe

• Quantity to Order

Small cups for unhurried moments. The hand-painted red horizon sits above natural stoneware, bringing warmth to the first coffee of the morning or the last one shared around the table. Made to be used every day, and to look better the more they're lived with.

Made in Spain · Set of 4 · Dishwasher and microwave safe · Approx 7cm height × 6.5cm diameter · No two are identical.

7 cm height · 6 cm diameter · 0.40 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
• Processed within 10 days of receiving your return, back to your original payment method.

I tend to reach for this one on the mornings that need a slower start. It works just as well on a kitchen counter as it does on a tray in bed, with whatever is already there. The olive sits quietly against the cream. Over time you stop noticing it as a choice. It just becomes the mug.

The red of these cups belongs to the Mediterranean as much as the clay beneath it. The colour of terracotta roofs, sun-warmed earth, and the last light before evening settles over the landscape. It's not an aesthetic choice borrowed from somewhere else. It's simply what surrounds the people who make them.

The workshops behind this collection are part of a ceramic tradition that has endured in this part of Spain for more than a thousand years. Techniques travelled across the Mediterranean, where they took root and became part of everyday life.

What makes that history remarkable is that it never became something to preserve behind glass. It remains a living practice, carried forward by independent makers who continue to work with the same materials, the same rhythms, and the same respect for the craft.

The world learned to make things faster. These makers kept making them well.

The red band is painted by hand before glazing, where colour meets raw clay in a line that can never be repeated exactly.

During the firing, the glaze softens and settles, the clay contracts, and the boundary between them becomes something neither entirely planned nor entirely accidental.

The maker understands how clay shrinks, how glaze flows, and how heat transforms minerals into surface. They guide the process, but the kiln completes it.

Each cup carries that conversation between hand, earth and fire. No two are exactly alike, and none are trying to be.