Vega Dinner Plate
Speckled stoneware, 27 cm, satin bone glaze
$38.00
USDStandard shipping $9.00, free over $95. Arrives in 3–6 business days. 30-day returns.
The plate the rest of the Vega line is built around. Twenty-seven centimetres across with a low, wide well and a rim that rises just enough to keep a sauce where you put it. It is thrown rather than pressed, so the rim is very slightly out of round and the wall thickens a little towards the foot — you can feel it when you pick one up, and it is why the plate weighs what it does.
The clay is a buff stoneware shot through with iron. In the firing the iron burns out through the glaze as dark speckle, heavier in some places than others, and no two plates freckle the same way. Over a stack of four the effect reads as one material rather than four identical objects, which is the point.
Fired to 1240°C, at which the body vitrifies and stops being porous. That is what makes it genuinely dishwasher-safe rather than dishwasher-tolerant, and it is the difference between a plate that lasts a decade of daily use and one that crazes in a year.
The material record
Everything we know about this piece, stated plainly. The same record is printed on the card in the box.
- Body & glaze
- Buff iron-speckled stoneware body, satin bone-white glaze, food-safe and lead-free. Fired to 1240°C (cone 6) in an electric kiln.
- Dimensions
- Ø 27 cm × 2.4 cm high
- Weight
- 620 g
- Finish & variation
- Satin matte glaze with a soft sheen, breaking to a warmer sand tone over the rim where the glaze runs thin. Speckle density varies noticeably between pieces, and the rim is very slightly irregular — both are inherent to a thrown, iron-bearing body and are not faults.
- Made
- Thrown, glazed and fired in northern Portugal.
Care
- Dishwasher-safe on any normal cycle. Load so pieces do not knock against each other — chips come from contact, not from water.
- Microwave-safe. There is no metal in the body or the glaze.
- Safe in a conventional oven to 180°C, provided the piece goes into a cold oven and heats with it.
- Wash off acidic foods — tomato, citrus, vinegar — within a few hours rather than leaving them to stand overnight.
Cautions
- Not for the freezer, the broiler, or a direct flame. Stoneware fails by thermal shock, and the crack is immediate and total.
- Do not move a piece straight from a hot oven onto a cold or wet surface, or run cold water into a hot dish.
- Cutlery leaves grey metal marks on a satin glaze. They are surface only and lift with a damp cloth and a little bicarbonate of soda.
- The unglazed foot ring is deliberately left raw and is slightly abrasive — lift rather than drag across a polished table.
Shipping
$9.00 standard, free over $95. 3–6 business days. Full policy
30 DAYS
Returns
Unused and in original packaging. Refunded within 5 business days of reaching us. Full policy
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