French Ginger Jar

Found in France, these early 20th-century ginger jars were made in the French countryside when Chinese export porcelain was the reference everyone copied. The cobalt florals are hand-painted, and each jar still has its original fitted lid. Originally, jars like these were used in rural kitchens to hold dry goods - spices, teas, herbs, even sugar or homemade preserves. The clay bodies have the slight waviness you get from small-workshop production, and the bases show the kind of wear that comes from living on a shelf, not in a cabinet. Sylvie keeps pairs like this on an open counter or tucked onto a pantry shelf, where they’re both storage and decoration without trying to be either.

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