This cup is inspired by our own moon. The textured craters are carved by hand, and capture the Black Iron/Chrome stain that is used as an inlay. Some of these cups also have a brown/orange hue to resemble the harvest moon. This effect is caused by other pieces of pottery placed next to the cup; they "flash" hot gasses onto the asteroid cup causing the hue of the cup to change. The inside of all of these cups is glazed over with a deep black Oil Spot glaze; resembling the deep void of space.

Functional

This cup is 100% food and dishwasher safe.

Learn More

Read about our moon and how surface moon craters' textures were formed over billions of years by reading this Wikipedia Post.

Read about the 9 mile wide (15km wide) Asteroid "243 Ida" that inspires my pottery textures, colors and shapes in this Wikipedia post.

By Gregory H. Revera - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11901243