Throwing Stepped Mug Shapes



Throwing a small batch of stepped mugs from 300 grams of high-iron stoneware, these are tests, in a way, to handle and then look at, so that I can choose one of these forms to make in a much greater quantity. Although there’s six here, the last thrown, the piece on the left at the very end, was scrapped as proportionally it was miles off.

The others work. There’s a balance between the squared-off lower section and the sloping out walls, I think one easy visual to pick up to tell whether they work or not, (that means whether I like them or not), is restricting the lip to never flare out further than the straight part underneath, instead they need to be more or less inline, give or take a few millimetres.

The last one I threw flared out rather a lot and somehow it begins to feel like a flower pot as compared to the body of a mug, not a shape I’d like to drink from.

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