Back to the Beginning: The Devonshire Tabletop Collection
Miranda Thomas’ Pottery designs are deeply rooted in the English ”North Devonshire” pottery tradition. For centuries, the potters of the North Devon region made beautiful useful country wares from the local clay-rich soils that have been inspiring many potters and collectors since.
The wares were made from a low-fire red earthenware clay, their interiors lined in a slip or just glaze, and the exteriors often left unglazed. These historic country wares of North Devon made their way across the UK to Ireland, Brittany in France, and as far afield as North America, as early as the 1600’s. The potters who worked in these potteries were some of the last remaining country potters to survive into the 21st century industrial England.
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Miranda Thomas's Devonshire line is now made from her clay, a blend of stoneware clays from Tennessee, better suited to the rigors of ovens, dishwashers, and microwaves in modern use. Like the early Devonshire wares, the exterior surface is left unglazed and undecorated. This impervious high-fired raw unglazed surface of the pot reveals the clay’s inherent beauty and captures the potters hand impressions as the pots are formed on the wheel or patted over a simple hump mold. The interiors are glazed in an opalescent celadon glaze and are fired in a stoneware reduction kiln to 2,360℉. The result is elegant, durable, beautiful and, like their predecessors, ready for everyday life.
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