This gorgeous stoneware jug is made exclusively for The Painted Bird by Ailsa Ferrier of Roadside Picnic Ceramics. Featuring a toasty speckled cream and brown glaze, with a bold bluish-grey striped design, it's the ideal shape and size to hold water for your dinner guests or for a bunch of fresh flowers, and is eye-catching enough to display on a shelf, mantlepiece or kitchen dresser.

• Stoneware
• Approx H 20cm x Ø (top inc. spout) 11cm
• Hand-thrown in Edinburgh

Ailsa Ferrier (Roadside Picnic Ceramics) is an Edinburgh-based ceramicist. Trained in contemporary sculpture in London, her work blends her fine art past with everyday function, creating homeware from custom clay bodies and glazes. Influences range from clean contemporary and mid-century Scandinavian design to the decorative qualities of French Baroque. Alongside her own collections, she produces commissions and more sculptural pieces, including Raku, and co-founded Portland Street Pottery in Leith in 2024.