Description
These beautiful “flower houses” are designed and created by Penny Howarth. Every one is hand made and unique. Each face of the house has a selection of windows, doors, flowers, trees, and other things. See photos with each aspect.
Made from fine stoneware clay the walls are matt white with glazes embossed images on the walls. These beautiful hand-crafted miniature ceramic houses are a collector’s dream (see photo for detail). The roof is glazed in a beige & speckled blue agate gloss finish, offering a deep and fascinating shine. Each little house is completely unique and hand built by Penny Howarth, differing in dimensions with windows and doors positioned around each wall to provide displaying options.
Penny’s sweet little houses make wonderful gifts for friends and loved ones. They are perfect house moving gift, or maybe just a way of letting your friend or family member know you are thinking of them.
Each house can be placed on your windowsill, mantle or gathered in a vivarium or diorama scene, even around the base of your favourite house plant.
All dimension vary to please study the photos with a US cent and UK Penny coin for scale comparison.
The taller house is approx 4.5cm tall
The shorter house is approx 3cm tall.
Please contact Penny if you would like more detail on the items, i.e. additional photos and measurements, etc.
Why Purchase from Penny Pottery?
All items are:
– Handmade & glazed by a single artist in her studio – Penny Howarth.
– Twice fired & glazed fired to 1220C. Lasting for thousands of years.
– Created using high quality clays & glazes.
– Never created from a mold, template.
– Made in small batches increasing rarity of specific designs.
– Sustainably produced with the environment in mind. Fired with electricity from renewable energy provider. Sent using recycled and/or recyclable packing material.
In a world dominated by mass produced items, it is refreshing and exciting to own a piece of hand crafted art, knowing that it is uniquely yours.
Penny is a highly collected ceramic artist of 30+ years, who originally studied at the world renowned Falmouth College of Arts in Cornwall, UK. The Cornish coast is a strong source of inspiration for Penny, many of her pieces recreate the sea; the fishing boats, harbours and cottages precariously perched on the cliff tops where she grew up.
Penny founded PennyPottery in 2020 and sells via galleries in America, Canada, Wales, England (Cornwall & Surrey) + online.
