Vintage Shona Pot - 61.2 Nightclub Scene 31cm tall × 9cm wide

31cm tall × 9cm wide (base depth 10cm)

Patterns and colours may have much to do with gender

this necklace is a symbol of authority

with impressive antlers

or even as a thoughtful gift for wine lovers or plant enthusiasts

Vintage Shona Pot - 61.2 Nightclub Scene 31cm tall × 9cm wideA 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