A large terracotta bowl, decorated with white slip and sgraffito, glazed with washy colours in straw, sap and peat. The tian is a large French bowl, traditionally used to prepare duck confit. It is wonderfully wide at the mouth, the sides reduce steeply to a narrow base. The interior bowl of antique tians are glazed with solid colour and the exterior is left unglazed, utilitarian and primitive - decorated only with the clay’s flaws, dents and dings. The 1690 version is an absolute circus inside; a galloping chaos pinned down by three tiny eggs in a nest at the centre - Olive’s idea.

Please note, I have one tian in stock, ready for immediate dispatch.