A Ceremonial Moonpot

A vessel for the in-between hours. Hand-built from warm brown stoneware with white stoneware accents, this moonpot rises on three short feet, lifting its clean silhouette just above the tabletop — as if it's not quite ready to commit to gravity.

Nascent orbs ring the naked stoneware, clinging where the pale speckled clay gives way to a serene, opalescent-grey glaze, the moon behind fog, light diffused rather than reflected. Lift the seated lid and the vessel keeps a secret: a deep burnt-orange interior, glowing like a coal banked low and kept warm overnight.

Use it to hold intentions, salt, or sugar on your table — sacred and domestic in the same breath.

If you and your family would welcome a set of these stable, one-of-a-kind vessels for sharing a loved one's ashes, please reach out. I'd be honored to make that for you.

Constructed using the traditional Yixing method — paddle and pottery compass rather than wheel — this piece lives at the intersection of Chinese slab-building tradition and an Arts & Crafts sensibility. All glazes are my own studio recipes, mixed from raw dry materials and tested by hand to marry properly with this stoneware body.