Custom Ceramic Plate

$299

Your recipe, not one of ours. We design it together and I paint it by hand, so the plate has never existed before, and never will again.

Once you book, I'll message you and we'll design it together: your recipe, your colour.
  • Nothing is fired until you approve the design
  • Made by hand over about a month, with updates the whole way
  • Signed, numbered, and yours alone. Damaged in transit? I remake it free

How it works.

1

Buy it.

Buy the custom plate.

2

We design it together.

I'll message you, and we'll choose the recipe, colour, and size. Send me the dish that matters.

3

You approve it.

I draw up the design, and nothing touches the kiln until you're happy.

4

I make it by hand.

Thrown, painted and fired over the next few weeks, with updates as it takes shape.

5

It arrives.

Signed, numbered, with a keepsake film of it being made.
The detail that matters most

Painted in her handwriting.

If you have the recipe in someone’s own hand, a card from your grandmother, a note from your mum, send it to me. I’ll paint the recipe onto the plate exactly as they wrote it, in their handwriting. It’s the detail people open the box and cry over: a dish, in the hand of the person it came from, kept for good.

Handwritten Italian recipe cards for Tiramisù and Carbonara, the kind of handwriting painted onto a custom ceramic plate by Franci Pots
What you get

What a commission includes.

  • A plate designed with you — your recipe, your colour, and size decided together.
  • A design collaboration — we shape it directly, including the option to paint it in a loved one’s handwriting.
  • Approval before anything is fired — you see the design and sign it off first.
  • Updates as it’s made — from raw clay to the last brushstroke.
  • A keepsake film — a short edited video of your plate being created, yours to keep and share.
  • A certificate of authenticity — signed and numbered, a one-of-a-kind original.
The guarantee

Nothing is fired until it's right.

We design your plate together, and nothing is fired until you’ve approved the design. You’ll follow it being made every step of the way, and if it arrives damaged, I’ll remake it from scratch, free, shipping included.

Made by Franci, an art conservator trained in Italy.

A gift like no other

Made to be given.

A custom plate is the kind of gift people keep for life: a wedding meal painted for the couple, a grandmother’s recipe for the family she taught, the dish from a first date or a last Christmas. Long after the day, they’ll think of you every time they see it.

The collection

Looking for something simpler?

One of three hand-painted
handmade ceramic plates.