Handmade recipe plates

The plate that says who you are.

The plate you serve your favourite dish on. The one that turns a meal into an occasion.

Thrown and painted by hand by a qualified Italian art conservator, one at a time
A new batch opens the first Sunday of each month. Ten spots, first come.
$149, made to order and shipped anywhere in Australia

Hand-painted Italian recipe plate by Franci Pots, displayed on a sideboard in a cultured, lived-in home

For the meals that matter

A dish you love deserves better than a blank plate.

You cook the thing you’re proud of, the recipe you’ve made a hundred times, the one people ask you for.
Then it lands on the same white plate as a weeknight reheat.
The meal is an occasion. The plate should know it.

The moment you're buying for

The meal becomes the occasion.

You plate your dish on the right plate, the recipe drawn right there under the food. Dinner stops being just dinner.
You’re eating the dish you love off the plate that tells its story, the one that says something true about you.
That’s a reason to have people over.

Three ways to own one

Choose your recipe, bring your own, or set the whole table.

The Recipe Plate

$149

Choose one of three Italian classics: Carbonara, Margherita, or Tiramisù. Pick your colour and size. Thrown on the wheel and painted by hand, just for you.

See the recipe plates →

The Custom Plate

$299

Your recipe, not one of ours. A family dish, a wedding meal, a memory. We design it together, and I paint it onto a plate that's never been made before, and won't be again.

Commission your plate →

The Grazing Platter

$349

Your favourite nibbles drawn by hand. Have the signature spread, or design your own.
A wedding present the couple reaches for every time friends come over.

Commission your plate →

Every plate is made to order, filmed as it's made, and arrives signed, with its own display stand.

How it works.

1 Buy your plate.

Ten spots, first come. Choose a recipe plate or commission your own, and it's yours to make.

2 Watch it come to life.

Over the next few weeks I make your plate by hand, throwing it on the wheel and painting it brush by brush, and I send you updates as it takes shape. It arrives signed, on its stand, ready to show.

Handmade vs printed

Why it can't be printed.

The plates that fill most homes are printed in a factory, thousands at a time, then sold with a story that was never true. Here’s the difference, side by side.

Mass-printed homewares

A Franci Pots plate

Identical on every copy

The only one of its kind

Made by the thousand

Thrown and painted by hand, one at a time

A pattern stamped on

A real recipe, drawn and painted by hand

Nothing to say about it

A story you're glad to tell

Looks the same online and in person

The difference shows the moment it's in your home

Made for some tables, not all

Made for some tables, not all.

This is for you if you love to cook, and if a good meal feels like something worth marking. If you want matching, mass-made, and delivered tomorrow, this isn’t it, and that’s alright. But if the dish you make means something, and you want to serve it on a plate that means just as much, it’s exactly it.

Franci, an Italian-trained art conservator, hand-painting a ceramic plate in her Western Australian studio

The maker

Who's making your plate.

I’m Franci. Before I worked in clay, I spent five years as an art conservator in Italy, restoring other people’s masterpieces and learning to read every brushstroke, pigment and surface.
That trained eye goes into every plate I paint, now from my studio in Western Australia.
I make each one by hand, to order.
I throw the plate on the wheel, then draw and paint the recipe onto it, so the whole thing is mine, not a blank someone else made.
You’ll watch it take shape, from raw clay to the last brushstroke, and it arrives signed, with a certificate of authenticity.
If it ever turns up damaged, I’ll make you a new one, free.

The plates.

Each plate turns a recipe you love into the plate you serve it on. Cook the dish, plate it on the recipe that made it, and dinner becomes an occasion. I make ten to order each month. Pick one of three signature recipes, or bring your own.