A handbuilt ceramic vase in speckled white with a hand-sculpted flower wrapping around the shoulder — cobalt blue petals, yellow centre, celadon leaves trailing down the side. At 5¾ inches tall with a rounded globe body and textured cylindrical neck, the Bloom Vase is small enough for a nightstand or a windowsill and strange enough to be the thing people pick up first.
The flower is fully three-dimensional, built directly into the form — not applied as decoration but grown from the clay as though it arrived there on its own. The glaze shifts across the petals from deep cobalt to amber to celadon, the kiln doing what kilns do with multiple glazes in close proximity. No two are identical.
The narrow 1¾ inch opening is made for a single stem — one tulip, one ranunculus, one branch of something just beginning to open. Or nothing at all. The vase holds its own.
WHY IT'S SPECIAL
- Hand-sculpted flower on the shoulder: cobalt blue petals with a yellow centre and celadon leaves — built into the form, not applied on top.
- Speckled white globe body with textured cylindrical neck: two different surfaces, one coherent object.
- Glaze variation across the flower: cobalt, amber, and celadon shift where the glazes met in the kiln — unrepeatable.
- Narrow opening at 1¾": made for a single stem or small arrangement.
- Handbuilt by Mariette Groen of Catto Studio — each piece is its own.
DETAILS
- Handbuilt ceramic vase
- Height: 5¾"
- Diameter at widest point: 4¼"
- Opening: 1¾"
- Finish: speckled white glaze with hand-sculpted cobalt, amber, and celadon flower detail
- Each piece is unique — this is a one of a kind object
- By Catto Studio, founded by Mariette Groen
- Small-batch production
THE BRAND
Catto Studio is the ceramic practice of Mariette Groen — handbuilt objects that sit between utility and storytelling. Inspired by natural forms, seasonal rhythms, and the slow logic of making things by hand, each piece is meant to be lived with quietly. Not decorative in the obvious sense. More like something that belongs wherever you put it, and you can't quite imagine the room without it anymore.
