Why do these cups have holes through them? Nine dark charcoal cups, photographed together on one August 2025 day, each carry one or more round holes bored clean through the wall — open from one side straight through to the other. In the first cup’s listing a green reed is slid through the openings; across the family the holes are the shared signature, small round apertures pierced through pinched, torn-rimmed handbuilt cups dusted with pale frost-like speckle.
The catalog describes the holes only as they photograph — round openings pierced through the wall — and does not assert what they are for or how they were made; per the same caution the pierced walls are never called functional or watertight either way. Approved as a nine-member family in the 2026-07-13 batch-17 ruling.
A later piece carries the same signature in a different form: the charcoal boulder 2280 has a row of three holes pierced clean across its crown, photographed with dried flower stems set into them in place of the cups’ reed. It shares the pierced-hole feature though not the cup form.
See it on real pieces
1770, 1771, 1772, 1773, 1774, 1775, 1776, 1777, 1778, and the boulder 2280 — or browse the pierced-hole listing.
Each piece page links to its live listing on the Shopify store.