A heavy hand-built bowl with real presence. The inside stays dark and smoky; the outside does the talking, with spirals, dot rows and banded colour over a surface that still lets the built-up coils show through. Coil-building is among the oldest ways of making a pot, the wall raised in stacked ropes of clay rather than thrown on a wheel, and leaving that method visible is a deliberate choice.

It was sold to us as Australian Indigenous pottery, and on looks alone you can see the case: the coil-work, the spirals and dots, the banded colour. We can't identify the maker behind the PEP mark, so we've left that out of the title and pass the description on as the one we were given, not one we can confirm. If you can place the hand, we'd like to know.