Come in, or ask first

Forty cups for a restaurant, a set of gaiwans to your own dimensions, a box of something for a company at the end of the year, or a shelf of it for your own shop. Work like this is quoted rather than priced: everything is thrown by one pair of hands and fired twice, so the date it has to exist by is the part worth agreeing first. Say how many, what they are for and when you need them, and the answer comes back with a figure and a firing schedule rather than a price list.