Bowls · BWL-002-A
Warm Earth Bowl
Available to commission.
Every piece is made to order. Message Mita on WhatsApp and she’ll throw this one for you — same form, same glaze, with the small differences that make it yours.
Order on WhatsAppUsually three to four weeks — throwing, drying, two firings — and we’ll confirm the price with you before anything starts.
Warm Earth Bowl is a Wheel-thrown, rounded form with slightly inward-curving rim bowls in Matte warm brown, subtle speckle bloom at base glaze, handmade at Mita Pottery Studio, Rakkar, Himachal Pradesh. ₹800. Made to order.
Some mornings the valley is all mist and the chai is the only warmth. This bowl was made for that moment — both hands wrapped around it, nothing else needed. The colour came from the hillside in November, that particular brown of wet earth and dry oak.
Wheel-thrown on a speckled stoneware body, the walls curve gently inward to a smooth, unfussy rim. The glaze sits matte and even — a warm brown with a quiet silvery bloom at the floor visible from above. Fired to around cone 6, the surface has the soft depth that only stoneware at temperature can hold.
- form
- Wheel-thrown, rounded form with slightly inward-curving rim
- size
- Small — approx 10–12 cm diameter
- glaze
- Matte warm brown, subtle speckle bloom at base
“That unplanned swirl, that crooked handle — they are the story of the hour spent making it.”
Handmade by Madhumita at her studio in Rakkar, Himachal Pradesh — wheel-thrown, glazed, and fired in small batches beneath the Dhauladhars. Yours is thrown to order by the same hands, so it won't be identical to the photographs — it will be this piece's sibling.
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