A handbuilt terracotta vase, decorated with white slip and subtle impressions inspired by Alma, the doggy who presides over the goings-on at the venerable Atelier Vime in Provence. The surface decoration is glazed with drawings and thoughts from a letter to Alma which reads, in French:

‘Dear Alma,

How are you? I imagine that you are sitting in the sunshine today, eyes half closed, nose raised slightly to the sky, sniffing something curious; a scented note from the land of the black stars perhaps.

How are your esteemed friends in Vallabrègues? Alma, I blow kisses from my terracotta hands!

Cou cou, I love you! See you soon,

Sophie 1690’

Offset handles are glazed in splashy strokes of arsenic green and a sort of dark plummy colour which were taken from book spines in the painting, Interior with the Artist’s Daughter, c.1935-6 by Vanessa Bell.