Toucan on the Long Branch

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Why yours will not look like the photograph

Every line is cut by hand and every animal is painted freehand, so the greens sit a little differently, the vine wanders its own way, and the lemur’s expression is never quite repeated. That is the whole point of buying one of these rather than a moulded pot: what you receive is the piece in the photograph, with all of its own small decisions still visible.

The honest detail

Bowl

21 cm across, 8 cm tall — the low wide one, deep enough for a small root ball

Pot

11 cm across, 12 cm tall — takes a standard 10 cm nursery pot inside it

Weight

2.4 kg for the pair, so it sits still on a windowsill

Materials

Hand-pressed concrete, carved sgraffito, hand-painted in thin acrylic layers

Drainage

No drainage hole, by design — plant into a liner or keep the nursery pot inside, and water lightly

Where it lives

Indoors, or a covered porch. Not made for frost or full weather

Sealed

Matte water-based sealer over the paint. Handle it freely; it will not rub off

Care

Wipe with a damp cloth. No soaking, no dishwasher, no scouring — the painting sits on the surface