Set of six green coffee cups with painted cacti
Set tazzine

Twelve pieces, hand-pulled and cooked one by one.

Set of 6 Coffee Cups with Saucers · Green

  • verde
  • h 6 cm · ø 10 cm
  • rossa clay

€66,00

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

Six coffee cups and six saucers, green, with hand-painted cacti.

Sixty-six euros for twelve pieces, each thrown and fired individually: this is the bill that clearly shows the true cost of handmade items.

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 painted and glazed terracotta
Dimensions
h 6 cm · ø 10 cm
Clay
Rossa
Decoration
Cactus

How to look after it

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

  • Hand wash
  • Dishware

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 six green cups, close-up
Set of six green cups, overall view
Set of six green cups, the saucers
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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