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Wrapped
Every bowl is wrapped by hand in what the season gives: copper wire, sea salt, banana skins, West Coast seaweed, sawdust, dried fynbos. Then it’s sealed in foil and laid in the kiln.
A Collection of Quiet · A candle subscription from Koringberg
Every bowl remembers its fire.
Hand-poured, unscented candles in one-of-a-kind saggar-fired bowls, numbered, labelled and released only four times a year from the Koringberg studio.
Next firing: Summer · December · every order gets a bowl in the fire
500 mlsaggar-fired bowl
No scentjust the flame
To orderfired for every subscriber
4×firings a year
1 of 1numbered & labelled
The making
Light, from the fire that marked it.
A saggar is a sealed vessel inside the kiln: a small world of smoke, salt and metal. What happens in there can’t be planned, only invited. Each bowl in the collection is fired this way once, poured once, and never made again.
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Fired
Inside the saggar the fire has nowhere to go. Copper fumes, salt flashes, carbon smokes into the clay. Nobody, not even I, knows what a bowl will look like until it is unwrapped in the ash.
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Poured
Once cooled, each bowl is cleaned, sealed and filled by hand with 500 ml of unscented candle wax, and given its own numbered label. No perfume: just a quiet flame and the marks of the fire.
A Collection of QuietKoringberg · ZA
Summer Firing 2026
“Dry Season”
Nº 07
- Fired
- December 2026, Koringberg
- In the saggar
- Pine sawdust, steel wool, coarse salt
- Candle
- 500 ml · hand-poured · unscented
L. Potgieter
ONE OF
ONE
ONE
One of one
Numbered. Named. Never repeated.
Every candle leaves the studio with a label written for it alone: the firing it came from, its number in that season’s firing, and what was wrapped around it in the saggar.
Keep the label. When the last of the wax is gone, the bowl stays with you: for keys, rings, a small plant, or a refill from the next season.
Only four times a year
Four firings. Four seasons of the Swartland.
The kiln is opened once a season. Every subscriber’s bowls go into that season’s fire, and each season has its own saggar recipe, so every season marks the clay differently. No two bowls, and no two seasons, are ever the same.
Autumn · March
Harvest Ash
In the saggarBanana skin, copper carbonate, oak sawdust
Winter · June
Hearth
In the saggarCopper wire, sea salt, dried rooibos
Spring · September
Veld
In the saggarWest Coast seaweed, ferric chloride, fynbos
Summer · DecemberNext firing
Dry Season
In the saggarPine sawdust, steel wool, coarse salt
Choose your light
A candle every month, or the whole season at once.
The Single
One candle couriered every month
R350/ month
Every month a candle from the current firing is couriered to your door. For a bedside, a desk, a quiet corner.
- A one-of-a-kind 500 ml saggar-fired bowl every month
- Numbered, labelled and signed: yours to keep
- Hand-poured and unscented: nothing but the flame
- Stay all four seasons and you’re invited to a saggar firing
- First look at new studio pieces
Most loved
The Pair
Two candles couriered every month
R600/ month
Every month two candles from the current firing is couriered to your door. Enough to keep some lit and give some away.
- Two one-of-a-kind 500 ml saggar-fired bowls every month
- Numbered, labelled and signed: yours to keep
- Hand-poured and unscented: nothing but the flame
- Stay all four seasons and you’re invited to a saggar firing
- First look at new studio pieces
Pause or cancel any time before the next firing. Couriered to your door anywhere in South Africa.
For full-year subscribers
Come to the fire.
Stay with the collection for all four firings, a full year, and you’re invited to a saggar firing in Koringberg. Wrap a bowl of your own with copper, salt and whatever the veld offers. Watch the fire do its work under the Swartland sky. Unwrap it the next morning in the ash.
Your bowl comes home with you, and so does that season’s candle. There’s no accommodation at the studio, so plan to stay over at one of the local guesthouses or an Airbnb nearby.
- Full-year subscribers only: all four firings
- Wrap and fire your own saggar bowl
- Stay over at a local guesthouse or Airbnb
- Date announced four weeks ahead
For you
from the fire
from the fire
The gift
Give a season. Or give the year.
A gift from the collection arrives wrapped in brown paper and twine, with a handwritten card and the edition label. Give the full year and it includes an invitation to a saggar firing, so the person you love can come and make their own.
Pairs are available too: choose “The Pair” in the gift form (R1 800 a season · R7 200 a year).
From the studio
“I wanted something people could live with every day that still carries the fire in it. You light it, and for a while you’re back at the kiln with us.”
Leon Potgieter · Potterbakker, Koringberg
Good to know
Questions, answered.
Is every bowl really different?+
Yes. Saggar firing can’t be repeated: the pattern comes from how the copper, salt and plant matter sat against the clay in the fire. Every bowl is numbered within its firing.
Why are the candles unscented?+
Because the point is quiet. No perfume, nothing competing with the room: just a slow flame in a bowl that still carries the marks of its fire.
What’s the difference between paying monthly and quarterly?+
Same candles, same price. Pay monthly (R350 / R600) and a candle, or two, from the current firing is couriered to you every month. Pay per quarter (R1 050 / R1 800) and the whole season, 3 or 6 candles, arrives in one box straight after each firing.
Can I use the bowl afterwards?+
Please do. Saggar-fired clay is porous and decorative, so it isn’t for food, but it’s beautiful for keys, jewellery, dried flowers or a small potted plant. Or send it back for a refill.
Can I pause or cancel?+
Any time before the next firing. Just reply to any email from me. The firing invitation is for subscribers who complete a full year.
How does delivery work?+
Everything is couriered to your door anywhere in South Africa: every month if you pay monthly, or once a season, straight after the firing, if you pay per quarter.
Who can come to a saggar firing?+
Subscribers who stay for all four firings (a full year), and anyone given the full year as a gift. Dates are shared four weeks ahead. There’s no accommodation at the studio, so book a guesthouse or Airbnb nearby.
Light something the fire made.
Every bowl is fired for someone. Join before the summer firing and yours goes into the fire.