Chinese Storage Vessel / Planter

Forty-one inches across. Bring help.

This storage vessel or planter comes from Guangdong Province, China, and dates to the early 20th century, in glazed pottery. Pots this size stood in courtyards and kitchens across the region, holding water, rice or foods set aside to ferment. An olive-brown glaze covers the body, thick and slightly shiny, darkening toward the foot. The broad rim is left bare in peach-colored clay, and the glaze laps up to it in an uneven line. The walls taper to a much narrower base. Thirty-three inches high and forty-one across.

Moving it is a two-person conversation.