A handmade ceramic soap dish pressed from a real leaf into terracotta, cut to the leaf’s silhouette and finished in a blue-green crackle glaze with warm golden undertones.
The making: Hand-built in our garden shed in Scotland from rustic terracotta stoneware clay. A real leaf is pressed into a slab of clay to capture its veining and shape, the dish is then cut around the leaf’s natural outline, edges smoothed, the centre pierced for drainage, and three small ball feet attached. Finished in a teal blue-green crackle glaze and kiln-fired.
How it looks: The blue-green crackle glaze pools dense across the smooth centre and breaks paler over the carved leaf veining, with warm golden undertones bleeding through where the glaze runs thin. The crackle pattern reads finer in raking light. The three little ball feet keep it just lifted off the counter; the pierced drainage hole sits at the centre.
Use it for:
- A bar of artisan soap by the bathroom basin or kitchen sink
- A jewellery dish on a dressing table for rings and small earrings
- A trinket dish in a hallway for keys, coins or a small candle
- A housewarming or wedding gift for someone who notices natural detail
- A bathtub-side resting place for a handmade soap bar
A considered gift for the friend with a bathroom in calm coastal tones — housewarmings, weddings, or simply because.
Care: Hand wash with mild soap; stoneware is hard-wearing but handwashing keeps the crackle pattern sharp.
Size:
- 16 cm diameter x 7 cm tall (on feet)
- Pierced drainage hole + three ball feet
- Handmade — small variations are part of the character
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