Bowls · BWL-008-A
Storm-Cloud Chawan Bowl
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. ₹750. One of one.
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 Chatterjee at her studio in Rakkar, Himachal Pradesh — wheel-thrown, glazed, and fired in small batches beneath the Dhauladhars. The photographs show the exact piece you’ll receive.
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