I am an inveterate pebble collector with a particular liking for ones that are nice and stripy. However, on holiday in Crete with my family we came across a beach that just had the most amazing spotty pebbles. The huge number of nudists playing volleyball couldn’t even distract me. It is not such a big leap of faith to then get to the finished range of bowls, vases and perfume bottles you see here.

Height 115mm, diameter 140mm.