One-off fabulous pieces ready to come and find a forever home with you. Handmade ceramic utensil pots, ceramic oil pourers, salt pigs, butter dishes, coffee pots and soap dishes — the functional kitchenware and counter-top storage pieces that make a kitchen look as considered as it feels, by four of our favourite independent UK ceramicists.
Liz Vidal's dipped-glaze pieces are among the most distinctive in the collection — her ceramic oil pourer, salt pig, butter dish and soap dishes are wheel thrown in her studio in Somerset, dipped and layered in earthy glazes and each one subtly different to the last. Her soap dishes in both dipped glaze and white speckle are a neat way to bring the same handmade quality to a bathroom or kitchen sink. Wildwood Ceramic Studio's Simon Jones, working from his studio in the Forest of Dean, brings wheel-thrown utensil holders in white dipped and black boulders glazes, ceramic oil pourers in five designs including boulders and black loops, a butter dish and a coffee pot — each piece glazed and fired individually so the pattern sits differently on every one.
Annabel Roberts' utensil pots — in her signature stripes and spots and vines designs, hand-painted in inky Surrey-palette glazes in her Chiddingfold studio — are particularly popular as standalone kitchen gifts and wedding presents, the kind of handmade ceramic kitchen piece a couple will actually use for the rest of their lives. Pip Hartle's stoneware utensil pot, wheel thrown and glazed in her signature calm palette, rounds out the collection.
Whether you're after a handmade ceramic oil pourer for the kitchen counter, a hand-thrown butter dish for the table, a wheel-thrown utensil pot for spatulas and wooden spoons, or a ceramic soap dish worth keeping on the sink, this collection is the place to find genuinely one-off, small-batch pieces that earn their place on the worktop.
Annabel Roberts, Liz Vidal, Pip Hartle, Wildwood Ceramic Studio
