The perfect mug?

My mug storage is gradually being taken over by mugs that I've made. Really, what I need is some more (and better) storage because I'm reluctant to get rid of my old mugs. These often have a story, and frequently have taken on an appropriateness - my Mr Scruff mug is for tea, I had a mug that I used while on the redundancy pathway to help me keep the faith, I've got an Emma Bridgewater mug with Siamese cats on which is about 20 years old but I love how the bottom fits in my hand.

It is funny selling mugs on a website because they are things that demand to be held - to be picked up, weighed up and down, lifted with the hands wrapped round. This is easy to do at a market and I encourage people to pick my pots up. It's impossible on a website - all I can do is take a photograph that represents the mug as best I can, and give the dimensions of the mug.

I took this photo to try and show a customer what the mug they were buying was like. I was surprised at the comparison - when I weighed the commercial mug it was 366g. My handmade mug came in at 356g so a smidgen lighter...

I've just weighed one of my small mugs - it is just over 200g.

What would be helpful for you to know when you're shopping online? Would you like to see a photo of a mug being held? What item could you put next to a mug to indicate scale (my immediate thought was a tunnocks tea cake, but that is a relatively risky strategy given that once they're in the house they will be eaten). Would you like to know the volume of liquid held? The weight of the mug?

Let me know!