Now you can serve cocktail snacks and chips in handmade ceramic tableware designed by some of India's best ceramic artists. an exhibition-cum-sale that can change the way your kitchen looks, opens today

If you like surprises, why not make your pals jump in wonderment the next time they drop by at your home for a drink. Serve chips in a ceramic serving bowl, topped to the brim, and let your buddies dig in and munch until they hit a hard lump while rummaging. It could be a quirky elephant, or any other figurine that ceramic artist Ela Mukherjee likes to house in all her serving bowls.

On the Table, a ceramic exhibition by Tranceforme Designs that opens in the city today, can make shopping for boring serving bowls and spoon-holders, fun. "The aim is to make available to people ceramic structures that are functional in the purest form," says Trupti Patel, curator of the show that hosts the works of 12 ceramists from Pondicherry to Baroda and Delhi. They are all limited-edition pieces, so whatever you buy here, you are not going to see on someone else's dining table. "Adding these pieces to your tableware can make a mundane meal a fine dining experience. Despite being exclusive, every piece is reasonably priced," she says.

Ela Mukherjee's serving bowls have quirky bronze figurines sitting in them