Legend is that Persephone ate 6 pomegranate seeds and that’s why we have winter. It’s also one of the fruits that some believe was on the Tree of Knowledge (though I am pretty sure it was a fig). It also has long-running sapphic connotations, so you go pomegranate!

Made with gorgeous Frost porcelain, luscious pomegranate fruits and branches decorate this mug, along with a sneaky snake, inlaid with black underglaze and decorated with colored glaze that drips and pulls.

3 1/2” tall by 4” wide at rim. One small staple repair on the rim!

Part of a sub-series of ‘Lost in Translation’ I’m calling “And They Were Roommates,” inspired by historic tendencies towards queer erasure in academia, as well as the sexual connotations of fruit in art history.