Antique Small Country French Honey Yellow Confit Pot

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O^O Item Description This beautiful pot came from a friend of ours who has a wonderful way of coming by exciting antiques in France. He provides a service for free to clean out people's barns, attics, andhouses or appartements. The arrangement is that after he removes all the truly worthless garbage he gets to keep the unappreciated treasures. He regularly finds confit pots and wonderfully glazed French folk art for us to sell. This is one of those pots that is really great...first of all it is small...a rarity to find intact. It is in practically perfect shape with respect for its age... 1870's. The wonderful Honey Mustard glazing is thick with overdrippings . It is very solid with no cracks and only a very small amount of glazing that has been lost...mostly around the rim. This pot is only 8.5 inches across from handle to handle and 8.25 inches tall. These small pots were often used to catch the fat drippings for later use in the kitchen... in the southwest of France duck and goose fat were used instead of butter . It was too dry and hot before modern irrigation to support cow based dairy culture. This is the domain of sheep and goats, so for gathering and storing the much needed fat these little pots were very important. As apposed to the larger models which were needed in quantity to store months worth of food for whole families, two or three of these small pots is all a family would have needed and as they were handled more often the risk of being broken was much greater. I would like to reassure that I know very well how to pack securely and safely for international shipping. In some 100's now shipped I have had only one pot arrive broken. The cause of the breakage was never determined but the buyer received a full refund including the shipping costs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SALUT MES AMIS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We are a family of Americans who've been living in France for 14 years and decided to share our " vie en rose " with you. I have always collected and sold antiques and started selling on eBay once we got a computer and the internet came to our ancient village in early 2003. It's been really rewarding to discover the world in this serendipitous way and find that people everyw are basically good and honest whether you're buying or selling. More than that we've made "amis" or friends that we cherish . It has been a "petit moment" as they say in France since green_stockings last sold on eBay....Hmmm since June of 2006 to be exact. Since then we moved. Further south under the sun, next to water & deeper into the France profound. It was a Herculean task moving the contents of 2 houses, and an antique shop with 6 kids in tow. Hyper Mega hard. T we were cast across the cool grass on our backs under the summer stars.The last of so many loads in the big moving van, various cars loaded, cats and dogs somew amongst it all at 5 minutes to midnight ourfamily caravan pulled away. We were absolutely knackered but giddy with the excitement of a new adventure about to begin. T is something about new beginnings and adventure that thrill us. The feeling of being lost and finding your way and everything new and exciting in that newness! We are continuing the adventure and slowly unpacking and decorating or "personalizing" our new old house. The twisted ironabove the huge front doors says 1831 but the house is much older than that. It's a fascinating house with plenty of character and places for all our activities but t is the work that must be done to restore the structure and make it functional in a 21 century sort of way. I just love leaving things in their original state whenever possible. We go to great lengths to keep any original bit however quirky...because it says alot about the people that lived in the house before us. My 2 older kids (making a total of 8 if you're counting) are always bugging me to throw it away and minimalize. So... read more

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