Vintage Shona Pot 61.5 Get Well Gift Size: 26cm D x 24cm

Size:  26cm D x 24cm H

Symbolizing strength and leadership

so size and design vary slightly from piece to piece

​Decorator's Note

Vintage Shona Pot 61.5 Get Well Gift Size: 26cm D x 24cmA 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 serving food and drink and storing dry foodstuffs. The neck and shoulder are incised with geometric patterns, the clay 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