“Is that what I think it is?” I ask Molly Sanyour as she sips wine from a white mug in her studio.

“Rosé?” she replies.

“No, the mug!”

Sculpted into a perfect replica of a voluptuous behind, it is one of Sanyour’s now-famous butt mugs , the first of which she created in 2018 and gifted to singer-rapper Lizzo before her concert. Then a high school ceramics teacher in Richmond, Virginia, Sanyour forgot all about the mug until a year later, when her students spotted it in a Lizzo photo shoot for Vogue . Shortly thereafter, the butt mug appeared in a Dove body-positivity campaign on Instagram, with Lizzo using it to cover her bare breast, and then again on TikTok, where she filmed herself scooping soup with it.

Fans quickly took notice of the bodacious pottery. Even without an official

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