Seven cherries, one stem, the lustre still wet to the eye.
Summer Editions 2026
Conserva — Cherries on Stem
Seven slip-cast porcelain cherries in metallic-red lustre, wired together by a single iron stem like a market bunch.
Edition price
$245
Seven porcelain cherries on a single iron stem, finished in a metallic-red lustre that catches the light without ever quite resolving into a colour you can name.
Each cherry was slip-cast outside Limoges from the mold of a single Burlat fruit and fired three times to set the lustre; the cluster was wired and dressed by hand.
It rests where you put it. It does not sit upright on its own. That is the point.
Material
Slip-cast in seven parts at a small porcelain studio outside Limoges, each cherry pulled from the mold of a single Burlat picked at the Place de la République market. The lustre glaze is fired three times to bring the metallic red forward without dulling the surface. The stem is forged iron, dipped in shellac, and the cluster was wired by hand. Edition of ninety.
Care
Dust with a soft brush from the stem outward. The lustre is durable but will dull under abrasive cloths; do not buff. Set on felt or linen to protect the wired stem from torquing.
Anatomy
- Dimensions
- Cluster L 14 cm × W 9 cm (5.5 × 3.5 in) · 320 g · 7 cherries on a single iron stem
- Cultivar
- Burlat cherry
- Provenance
- Slip-cast outside Limoges, France, 2026. Glazed and wired by the Marteau atelier. Edition of 90.
- Edition
- № 1 of 90
