I developed this design after experimenting with slip decoration using triangular strips of wet newspaper as a mask on the leather hard clay. The triangular pattern accentuates the simple inverted conical shape of the cup.

I made the cups from stoneware clay on my potters wheel and cut them off the wheel using a twisted wire. A pulled handle was attached when leather hard. followed by the slip decoration. Once bone dry it was bisque fired at 1000 C then dipped in clear glaze and fired in my self-built gas reduction kiln at 1240 C taking 16 hours to heat up and two days to slowly cool. The Celadon type glaze develops speckles as a result of small iron particles in the clay. The slip coated regions have a nice blue tint.