Chow Bella

Somebody Finally Thought About The Ears.

Anybody who lives with a spaniel knows the problem and has simply accepted it as one of life's conditions: the dog eats, and the ears go in with it, and what emerges is a dog wearing its own dinner. Claire Pearson-Cowell, a potter working from a small studio in Lindford, decided this was a design question rather than a fact of nature, and threw a bowl narrow enough at the top to keep the ears outside and wide enough at the base to hold a proper meal. She has been making them since 2006.

Every piece is thrown by hand on a wheel, stamped with the dog's name into the damp clay while it is still soft, then hand painted and glazed in one of nine colours, on the entirely reasonable founding principle that a pet bowl need not be beige ceramic or utilitarian plastic. Around the bowls sit cat bowls, treat jars and a range of bone china mugs for the owner, so the whole kitchen can match if that is the sort of household you run. Nearly seventeen hundred reviews, and a strand of them from people replacing a bowl eight years after the first one, which tells you more about the pottery than any description could.

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