Studio Pottery Lidded Jar Orange Ochre Pierced Garlic Keeper Hand Thrown

The holes are not decoration. This is a garlic keeper, and the ring of pierced holes around the shoulder plus the second ring at the base exist so air moves through the jar. Garlic rots in a sealed container and sprouts in the light, so the answer is an opaque pot that breathes, which is a problem potters solved centuries before anybody sold a plastic one.  The glaze is a shino family orange, thick and slightly crawled where it pools, breaking to a pale ochre over the throwing ridges and to a deeper rust where it ran down the belly. Carbon trapping under the surface has left the darker blooms you can see in the photographs. None of that is repeatable; it is what the kiln did that day.  The lid seats properly and turns without binding, which sounds trivial and is the hardest part of making a lidded pot, because the lid and the pot shrink at slightly different rates in the firing. A signature is brushed on the underside.  Use it for garlic, shallots, or nothing at all. It works standing empty next to a stove, which is more than the plastic one does.  Condition: Used. No chips, no cracks and no crazing found. Lid seats correctly and turns freely. All pierced holes clear. Signed on the underside. Unglazed foot with kiln grit as fired.  Ships from Baltimore via FedEx within the stated handling time. Flat rate shipping by size. Combined shipping on multiple items. Returns accepted for 30 days.  Ten percent of every sale goes to a nonprofit providing humanitarian aid in Ukraine.  Pa