Bowls · BWL-008-A
Storm-Cloud Chawan 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.
Storm-Cloud Chawan Bowl is a wheel-thrown, wide low cylinder with compressed walls bowls in cream and warm ochre base with cobalt-and-iron storm wash glaze, handmade at Mita Pottery Studio, Rakkar, Himachal Pradesh. ₹1,300. Made to order.
A bowl this wide and low asks to be held, not just filled. It sits in both hands like a small weather system — cream and ochre on one side, deep cobalt pooling on the other, the two never fully meeting. Made for slow mornings or the quiet after the kiln opens.
Thrown in smooth, lightly speckled stoneware, the walls compress outward to a broad open rim with no lip to interrupt the pour. The exterior carries a loose cobalt-and-iron wash that breaks into gloss where it thickens; the interior shows the same mark settling into wheel-thrown concentric rings, visible from above. Fired to around 1220 °C, the warm ochre blush on the unglazed side of the belly is the clay body itself breathing through.
- form
- wheel-thrown, wide low cylinder with compressed walls
- size
- small chawan-style bowl, approx 11 cm diameter
- glaze
- cream and warm ochre base with cobalt-and-iron storm wash
“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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