Thistledown Pottery
Handmade Ceramic 12oz Coffee Mug, Speckled Cream & Sage Green Glaze, Toasty Stoneware Pottery
Handmade Ceramic 12oz Coffee Mug, Speckled Cream & Sage Green Glaze, Toasty Stoneware Pottery
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This rustic hand crafted tea / coffee mug will be a beautiful addition to your mug collection. Hand thrown and decorated with a cream and sage green glaze, the toasty clay used interacts with the cream glaze, resulting in stunning brown streaks. This cup feels beautiful in the hand, warming you up on a chilly morning.
Product Highlights:
- Perfect size: designed to hold 12oz of your favourite coffee, tea or hot drink
- Dimensions: Width 9cm x Height 9cm (approx.) excluding handle
- Unique cream and sage green drippy glaze
- Dishwasher and microwave safe for easy everyday use
- Available in other colourways, shapes and sizes — pop into my shop to see the full range!
Why you'll love it
This perfectly formed coffee mug is beautifully crafted and has a warm and comforting hand feel. It's a perfect gift for coffee lovers, and an excellent birthday, housewarming, wedding, or anniversary gift for family and friends who enjoy handmade treasures — really indulge them and buy a matching set! Or maybe just treat yourself, you deserve it.
Need more stock, or something bespoke?
If you don't see enough in stock, or fancy a custom colour, just message me — made-to-order pieces usually take a few weeks and I'll always confirm a timeframe first.
How it's made
Every piece is thrown by hand by me, in my home studio in Bedfordshire. Each pot is shaped, left to dry to leather-hard, trimmed, and finished by hand. Once fully dry, it's fired to over 1000°C and cooled for about 24 hours, then glazed — sometimes with up to 8 brushed-on coats to build those painterly effects — before a final firing to 1180°C and another 24-hour cool-down. Start to finish, the whole process takes 3 to 6 weeks, a little longer in colder, damper months.
A note on handmade variation
Because each piece is made by hand, you may notice small differences in glaze and size from mug to mug — that's not a flaw, it's the joy of owning something one-of-a-kind.
Caring for your mug
This mug is dishwasher and microwave safe for everyday ease, but hand washing will keep the glaze looking its best over the long run — totally your call!
Kind to the planet too
Every order is packaged using recyclable and biodegradable materials — no unnecessary plastic, just careful, planet-friendly packing so your mug arrives safe and sound.
Questions? Just message me any time — I'm always happy to help.
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