Vintage Compotier

Found in Lyon, this white porcelain compotier sits on a tall pedestal foot, its shallow dish glazed a soft ivory. A footed dish is always a little occasion, the way it lifts what it holds above the table, as though the fruit or the sweets deserved a small stage of their own. The French call it a compotier, made to hold fruit or compote and raise it into view, a bit of ceremony for the simplest thing on the table. Sylvie would pile it with figs or lemons, or stand a single candle at its center, and let it lift the whole table an inch.

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