Mugs · MUG-006-A
Dark Sky Pinch Cup
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.
Dark Sky Pinch Cup is a Handbuilt with loop handle mugs in Dark tenmoku-green over cobalt, gloss, with unglazed foot ring glaze, handmade at Mita Pottery Studio, Rakkar, Himachal Pradesh. ₹1,150. Made to order.
A cup you reach for when the kiln has just cooled and the studio is still. Small enough to hold in a closed palm, rounded like a stone from a Himalayan stream. It was made for one strong coffee, or one pause in a long day.
Handbuilt by pinching, the squat walls carry the memory of thumbprints — shallow dimples pressed into the surface before glazing. A circular loop handle is attached at the side. The exterior is coated in a deep, near-black glaze that breaks to reveal flashes of cobalt and teal on the curves; the interior pools to a rich midnight blue. A thin unglazed foot band shows the pale stoneware clay beneath. Fired around cone 6.
- form
- Handbuilt with loop handle
- size
- Small cup / espresso size
- glaze
- Dark tenmoku-green over cobalt, gloss, with unglazed foot ring
“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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