Delft Tyg Cup | Emily Mitchell

Emily’s new Flora & Fauna slipware collection of flower vases and wall sconces is inspired by early English slip decoration and research into Jacobean embroidery and stump work motifs of the natural world.  

Each piece is handmade in terracotta and painted with layers of coloured slip before being decorated with hundreds of slip dots to create raised patterns of flora and fauna. Birds, hares and stags run around the flower vases and over the wall sconces.

Large handthrown three-handled Tyg cup, hand painted with cobalt oxide with a white gloss glaze and hand made and applied sprig decoration with white slip details, inspired by early English delftware ceramics.

A Tyg is a historic ceramic form of three-handled cup for sharing drink at celebrations. This is a tall centrepiece cup that can be used for decoration or drinking!

Height 18cm  Diameter of base 13cm