This cup is wheel thrown from brown earthenware. The outside of the cup has a handmade striped texture, contrasting with a colourless transparent glaze of the interior. The cup was fired using the black ceramics firing method, an old wood firing technique based on the reduction process, which gives the cups a beautiful metallic black colour. For Ieva Paukštytė, the priority when using this technique is to find a balance between shape and surface textures.
Ieva Paukštytė-Schinello was in two minds about what field to pursue after graduating from the National M. K. Čiurlionis School of Art – sculpture or ...