Spongeware Small Ceramic Pen Pot, Lady in the Bath

Like mochaware, spongeware was made quickly and cheaply, never signed or celebrated. Potteries often considered these humble wares beneath their name, and many were discarded or forgotten. Yet their folksy, hand-stamped designs now resonate with our modern love of bold, graphic simplicity — cheerful, childlike, and a little humorous. Exclusively made for Choosing Keeping, these stoneware vessels reimagine that tradition as pen pots, ready to hold all your tools with the same unpretentious charm as their 19th-century ancestors.