Two ceramic cats with the cork stopper, thin whiskers and pink cheeks.
Salt cellar

Mustache, rosy cheeks and gray stripes: the salt comes out of there.

Cat-shaped salt shaker

  • white

On request

This piece is one of a kind.

What you see in the photo is what you'll receive. If you'd like another, it can be remade to order.

On request

The price is worked out together with the piece

This piece is made to measure, and until the measurements are known there is no price. Write down what you need here: the request goes to Tuscany Market Hub, and we pass it on to Kerstin Simply Creative.

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Modeled, painted and glazed by hand by Kerstin Rauch, in Reggello.

The piece

Cat-shaped ceramic salt shakers, bringing a touch of cheer to the table. Hand-molded and hand-painted, each has its own character: delicate whiskers, rosy cheeks, and subtle gray stripes.

The cork stopper on top makes them easy to fill and keeps the salt dry. Made from good quality clay and finished with a glossy glaze, they are durable as well as cute. Their round shape fits comfortably in the hand.

They are perfect for cat lovers and collectors of handmade kitchenware.

How it's made

A one-person workshop, where every piece goes through all the stages without ever changing hands.

  1. Throws on the wheelThe form comes from the wheel she learned in Montelupo: from there on the piece is hers, from raw clay to firing.
  2. Decorates like a painterMaiolica was her first language and it shows: full colours, living surfaces, the palette borrowed from the hills outside the window.
  3. Knots the macraméThe hanging vases travel with the weave that holds them, and she makes the macramé herself, knot by knot, to the size of the piece.
  4. Gives the chimes a voiceThe wind chimes are a family affair: the sounding inserts come from her husband's hands. Every chime comes out with a voice of its own.
Materials
Hand-molded, painted, and glazed ceramic

How to look after it

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

  • Tableware

On request

Want it different?

Another colour, another size, a piece designed just for you: Tuscany Market Hub handles the request. Write to us, we'll put it into production and come back to you with timings and a price.

Ask for a made-to-order piece

The request goes to Tuscany Market Hub, who pass it on to Kerstin Simply Creative.

From the same hand

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

The workshop

Kerstin Rauch

Kerstin Rauch works clay in a small studio on the hills of Reggello, in the province of Firenze, where the window looks out over the olive groves. The colors and textures of that landscape are the matrix of what comes out of the kiln: she says so herself, and you can see it.

She has always liked everything that hangs — plants, bells, suspended objects — and half the production came from there: the wind chimes, the plant hangers, the jellyfish that hold the tillandsias, the bird feeder. The other half sits flat: hand-painted tiles, plates, spoons, incense holders, cat-shaped salt cellars.

In her workshop, she says, “everything turns: the wheel, the ideas, and often me as well”.

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Hand-painted ceramics · a small studio on the hills of Reggello · every piece is different from the next

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