Online Auction 13th to 15th June 2025

From Friday 13th till Sunday 15th June 2025 there will be an auction of the Jug of Resistance on my Instagram page (at littleleafpottery).

There will be a post and you can place a bid in the comments. There’s a minimum bid, highest bidder wins. The auction runs for two days and is for UK residents only, as I can only ship UK wide. The winner will be contacted on Instagram to arrange payment. If no payment is made within the given time frame, the piece goes to the next highest bidder.

ALL proceeds will go to ChildrenNotNumbers.org , a fantastic non-profit organisation who run entirely on volunteers (all over the world). They assess medical cases for emergency medical evacuations for treatment abroad (when the border crossings were still open), they distribute warm clothes in winter, supply families with baby formula, nappies and food, set up a maternity clinic for ante- and post-natal check ups, set up a school, where children can learn and have some sense of normality back for a little while. And they have so many more projects in the pipelines to help orphans and to provide help long-term. The staff in Gaza is fully paid - as you can imagine that is a rarity in a genocide.

Whilst I wish there was no need for them to exist, Children Not Numbers holds a very special place in my heart and I hope to raise some money for them so they can continue their fantastic work.

Half the population in Gaza are children.

Every child is our child. Every. Single. One.

Needless to say I cried during the process of making this piece.

The Jug of Resistance is a protest piece.

It’s a jug, because Palestinians can’t even access clean drinking water. The vessel symbolises mothers, the holes - making up the shapes of the Palestinian sunbird, the poppy (their national flower) and the fishnet from the kufiya - represent the children that have been killed by the occupation. We know of 15,613 so far, but this number is likely much higher.

The mothers will never be hole again.

The jug was hand built out of white clay, unglazed and is completely vitrified. The surfaces are not smoothed out, the holes are rough to symbolise the hardship of Palestinian life. White clay to represent the white shrouds.

Please note that this is NOT a functional but rather a decorative piece. It is NOT food safe.