Large round tray in coil-built red clay
Vassoio

Coiling: overlapping strips of clay made by hand, without a potter's wheel.

Large Round Tray

  • marrone
  • H 7 cm · Ø 40 cm
  • rossa clay

€268,40

This piece is one of a kind.

What you see in the photo is what arrives. If you want another, they make it again to order.

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

The piece

Forty centimeters in diameter and seven high, coiled: strips of red clay laid one on top of the other by hand, without a wheel.

Painted and glazed. Hand wash only.

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
Red earthenware, coiled, painted, and glazed
Dimensions
H 7 cm · Ø 40 cm
Clay
Rossa
Decoration
Colombino

How to look after it

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

  • Hand wash
  • Crockery
  • Furniture accessory

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.

Round tray, close-up of the coils
Round tray, view from above
Round tray, side 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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