Each cup is hand built, carved, then applied with screen printed image transfers.


"Demanding yet demure; hot tempered, but also sweet and thoughtful; flamboyant and yet sometimes shy and even self-conscious. Lillian Leitzel was a circus diva of the highest regard. She ruled the rings as well as the back lot during the golden age of The Greatest Show On Earth®. Christened Leopoldina Alitza Pelikan, Lillian Leitzel took her better-known name from the Americanization of "Alitze," her Germanic nickname meaning "Little Alice."

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Photography by Marisa Falcigno.