Chinese Storage Vessel / Planter

Forty-one inches across. Bring help.

This storage vessel, also suited to use as a planter, comes from Guangdong Province, China, and dates to the early 20th century. It is glazed pottery. Big jars of this kind held water, grain or preserved foods in southern Chinese households and shops, where a covered jar kept out damp and pests. A mustard glaze covers the swelling body below a bare, rolled rim, with darker patches scattered low on the sides. Thirty-three inches high and 41 in diameter.

Ferns will find it roomy.