Porches Pottery

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Water Jug

This jug has a beautifully curved natural form with a flowing handle. It’s the perfect shape for serving water at table, but is just as useful for freshly squeezed orange juice or lemonade. It can also be used to decant red wine for a very traditional experience.

The Queen’s Earring is a direct translation from the Portuguese ‘Brinca de Rainha’, which is the Portuguese name of the flower. The flowers have three petals in two shades of bright turquoise blue, which contrasts the leaves and vines that are in two complementary shades lush green.

11cm diameter x 18.5cm height - Queen's Earring Turquoise & Green
Price
37,00 €

All our ceramics are hand made and hand painted by skilled artisans using ancient techniques here in the Algarve region of Southern Portugal.

Red clay, earthenware pottery has been characteristic of the region ever since the Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, and Moors traded along the Algarvian coast. It has always been favoured for its hard-working, durable qualities. It has a satisfying weight and a robustness that is distinctive in the hand. In most instances, the shapes we use have been handed down, from potter to potter, for thousands of years and you will often find identical shapes in history museums across Europe.

The pottery is hand glazed and kiln fired to temperatures of over 1000º Centigrade (or around 2000º Fahrenheit), which makes it completely food safe, and brings out the lustrous finish.

We use the ancient Majolica technique to decorate our ceramics. This over glaze painting method demands free-flowing, confident brushwork, much like a fresco, and lends each piece with the distinct character of the artisan that has painted it. This means each and every piece is completely one-of-a-kind.

This is why you will find the signature of the artist and the mark of the Pottery on the base of each piece, though the trained eye can identify the artist from their brushwork alone.