What can be carved on a custom house portrait platter?

The Homeplace Collection from The Potter's Hands Studio in Oxford, Mississippi carves houses, cabins, lake houses, barns, docks, and farm buildings, along with the surrounding trees, water, and fields, into handmade stoneware plates, platters, and vases using sgraffito. A family name, property name, monogram, or date can be added.

Can a custom house plate be made from photos?

Yes. Artist April Dupuis draws each Homeplace design from the customer's phone photos and can combine features from several photos into one carved scene.

Can a Homeplace plate hang on the wall?

Yes. An optional plate hanger lets a Homeplace plate or platter be displayed on a wall at home, at a cabin, or in an office.

Is a custom house portrait platter a good closing gift?

Yes. Realtors and builders can order Homeplace platters from The Potter's Hands Studio as closing gifts, and families give them for housewarmings, anniversaries, and to remember a home that has been sold.

How long does a custom house portrait platter take?

Most Homeplace pieces from The Potter's Hands Studio are finished in 6–8 weeks once the design is approved.

Keepsakes · Homeplace Collection

Your homeplace,
carved in clay.

The Homeplace Collection is a line of custom house portrait plates, platters, vases, and wine chiller sets, hand-carved at The Potter’s Hands Studio in Oxford, Mississippi. Artist April Dupuis carves your home, cabin, lake house, farm, or family land into handmade stoneware using sgraffito — scratching through a layer of white slip to draw every porch rail, tree line, and shoreline by hand. Each piece can carry a family name, property name, monogram, or date, and no two are alike.

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How a Homeplace piece is made

Send photos of the place

A few phone photos are plenty — the front of the house, the view from the dock, the old oak, the barn. Add the name or lettering you want carved.
April draws the scene

April sketches a design from your photos and works with you until it feels like your place. She can combine features from several photos into one scene.
Carved, fired, sent home

The piece is coated in white slip, carved line by line, then glazed and kiln-fired. Most pieces are finished in 6–8 weeks once the design is approved.

Pieces in the collection

Design example: hand-carved sgraffito plate showing a lakeside cabin with a porch, tall trees, and a boardwalk to the water — Design example

House & cabin plates

Your house, cabin, or lake house carved as a portrait, framed by the trees around it. Add a plate hanger to display it on the wall at home, at the cabin, or in the office.

Design example: hand-carved sgraffito plate showing a stand of tall pines along a winding creek — Design example

Land, lake & coast platters

No house required. The tree line on the back forty, the creek behind the farm, the sunset off the pier — carved with the family or property name.

Design example: hand-carved sgraffito plate showing a two-story Southern home with columns, a front porch, and live oaks draped in Spanish moss — Design example

Family homes & estates

The family home, the farmhouse, the old homeplace — columns, porches, chimneys, and the oaks out front, carved in full detail on a plate, platter, or vase.

Design examples

These are design examples showing the style of the collection. Your piece is drawn by hand from your own photos, so every scene is different.

Design example, carved plate: two-story Oxford-style home with a columned portico

Design example, carved wine chiller and matching platter: Oxford-style home wrapped around the chiller

Design example, carved plate: lakeside cabin under trees

Design example, carved plate: pine woods and creek

Made in: Oxford, Mississippi — every piece carved by hand by April Dupuis
Pieces: Plates, platters, vases, and wine chiller & platter sets
Personalize: Family or property name, monogram, dates, and the features that make it yours
Timing: 6–8 weeks once the design is approved; optional plate hanger for wall display

Homeplace questions

What can be carved on a Homeplace piece?

Houses, cabins, lake houses, barns, docks, and farm buildings, along with the trees, water, fields, and shoreline around them. A family name, property name, monogram, or date can be carved into the rim or the scene.

Can you work from photos of my house or land?

Yes. Phone photos work well — send the front of the house, your favorite view, and any trees or features that matter. April draws the scene from your photos and can combine several into one design.

Can the plate hang on a wall?

Yes. Add the plate hanger option and your piece arrives ready to display at home, at the cabin, or in the office.

Is a Homeplace piece a good closing or housewarming gift?

Yes. Realtors and builders can order Homeplace platters as closing gifts, and families give them for housewarmings, anniversaries, and to remember a home that has been sold. Ask about orders of more than one piece.

How long does a Homeplace commission take?

Most pieces are finished in 6–8 weeks once the design is approved. If the piece is a gift for a set date, tell us when you reach out so the schedule works back from it.

Tell us about your place

Send a few photos and the name you want carved. April will reply personally with ideas, sizes, and pricing.

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Type of place

Piece

Name or lettering to carve

Family name, property name, monogram, or date.

Photos of your place

Up to 8 photos: the front of the house, your favorite view, trees or features that matter.

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Accepted file types: jpg, jpeg, png, heic, webp, Max. file size: 50 MB, Max. files: 8.

Add a plate hanger?

Yes

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Is this a gift? If so, the date you need it by

Anything else April should know

Your homeplace, carved in clay.