Set of two coffee cups with saucers, blue flowers
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Two cups and the saucer that holds them together.

Set of 2 Coffee Cups with Saucers · Blue Flowers

  • blu
  • h 8 cm · 18 × 14 cm
  • bianca clay

€49,50

This piece gets made again.

They paint it when you order it. Yours will look like the one in the photo without being identical — it is painted freehand.

Thrown, painted and fired by hand by Marcella e Maria Teresa Lorenzi, in Empoli.

The piece

Two cups and the saucer holding them together: eighteen by fourteen, eight high.

White earthenware, hand-painted and glazed with blue flowers.

How it's made

From raw clay to the second firing. In between there are two hands and a kiln you cannot be in a hurry to open.

  1. The wheelThe raw clay rises and takes its shape. From here on every gesture stays: ceramic is not corrected, it is remade.
  2. The first firingThe piece goes in raw and comes out biscuit: porous, matt, still without color. It is the state in which it drinks the glaze.
  3. The brushThe decoration is painted freehand, one at a time. It is the step that makes two pieces never come out identical — and that makes this one this one.
  4. The second firingTwelve, thirteen hours in the kiln. You cannot go any faster: ceramic heated all at once explodes. Then it cools on its own, and only then is it opened.
Materials
White earthenware, shaped, painted and glazed
Dimensions
h 8 cm · 18 × 14 cm
Clay
Bianca
Decoration
Fiorito

How to look after it

A few things, but they have to be respected: it is fired glaze, not plastic.

  • Hand wash
  • Crockery

On request

Want it different?

Another color, another size, a piece made on purpose: Tuscany Market Hub follows the request. Write to us, we put it into production and come back to you with times and price.

Ask for a made-to-order piece

The request goes to Tuscany Market Hub, who pass it on to Il Papavero.
About ten days of work for the large pieces. The kiln alone runs for twelve hours.

From the same hand

Two ways to look: the same decoration, or the same object in another guise.

Set of cups with blue flowers, close-up of the decoration
Set of cups with blue flowers, overall view
The workshop

Marcella e Maria Teresa Lorenzi

Two sisters, a kiln and raw clay. The passion started when they were children and took the serious road at the art school in Firenze; then life closed down a business and brought them back here, to ceramics, with the VAT number reopened and their hands in the clay.

They make two things that do not resemble each other: natural decorations and table centerpieces. All painted by hand, piece by piece, and fired slowly.

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