100% functional, non-toxic, dishwasher and microwave safe.
The mug is the potter's handshake. It is how a potter connects with another person. A warm cup of coffee, tea or hot cocoa lets you experience the art of the pottery mug in the most intimate sense. You never go to an art gallery and pick up a piece of art with both hands. You never touch art to your lips. But pottery lives in a space that we normally reserve for only those who we love. Pottery is an art that helps you experience smell, taste and sight, all at the same time. The pottery mug gives you a powerful artistic experience. As a potter, my goal is to make this experience more accessible for more people. It is in this spirit that I created a more affordable version of my Moon Mug.
At $25 each, "Moon Mugs, Untextured, Simplified" are some of the lowest priced mugs I have ever offered in my entire pottery career. They are priced so much lower than my other art because they are an experiment in pushing my own, personal limits of extreme mug quantity creating using my own body, since I handcrafted every mug myself, on my pottery kickwheel. At this low price, more people will get to experience my art.
Each mug is handcrafted by me, Joel Cherrico. But instead of the 30–50 steps required for my classic Moon Mug styles, I worked meticulously to simplify my creative process to the extreme. Any step that could be eliminated was eliminated. Most notably, instead of firing these mugs twice, they are only fired once. Skipping the bisque firing, and raw glazing them, saves massive time and energy. The required innovative, custom glaze chemistry and techniques. My glazing process was simplified to only that which can be applied with fewer motions, quickly and directly. Even the finished mugs are touched less. They are rough, not particularly smooth, because that is their natural state when they emerge from the kiln. I leave them in this natural, rougher textured state, because they are more honest expression of how the pottery kiln made them, and because it takes less time, so I can offer you a lower price.
Limit: 8 mugs per customer. Colors and shapes will not match photos exactly, as every mug is unique.
All mugs are:
- Durable: Stoneware pottery is very hard and chip resistant.
- Long-lasting: with careful use, it will last more than a lifetime.
- Functional: 100% non-toxic and dishwasher safe.
- Earthen: Raw silica, calcium, iron and other earth elements are transformed through kiln fire, 2200+ degrees Fahrenheit, to create non-toxic, food-safe surfaces.
- One of a Kind: Each mug has handmade subtleties that can never be duplicated exactly.
- Handcrafted: Joel Cherrico crafts each pot from a lump of Stoneware clay on a pottery wheel.
Blue Moon Mugs: $1 per mug sale will be donated to How I'm Fighting Cobalt Slavery, specifically The International Committee of the Red Cross, The Democratic Republic of Congo Red Cross.