From Saint-Uze, the village in the Drôme where the Revol family set up their pottery works in 1800, this lidded tureen carries the cobalt flowers the place became famous for. Pots like this held the daily soup or stew at a French table, cream stoneware printed with the floral pattern known as the Bleus de Saint-Uze, a blue transfer added to the village's wares from the 1870s on. The sprays of blossom around the body and across the lid are the village's signature, the same blue on cream that turns up in farmhouse kitchens across France. Sylvie keeps it out on the counter with the lid on, the kind of pot that earns its place whether or not there is soup in it.
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