Shona Pot - L 1.1

A hand-built earthenware pot from the Shona people of Zimbabwe, known in Shona as a hari. Pots like this were traditionally made by women and sat at the centre of domestic life — cooking, carrying water and storing milk and dry foods.

The clay is hand-burnished and finished with graphite and red oxide, then hardened in open pits fired with dry cow dung (ndove), which gives the surface its smoky, earthy variation. A genuine vintage piece, with the natural marks and patina of age that make it one of a kind — lovely as a sculptural object or holding dried stems.

Size: approx. 36cm W × 30cm H.