{"title":"Jardinieres \u0026 Pots","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBright geraniums, potted citrus, clumps of fresh herbs: this is what these antique jardinières and pots once carried on the windowsills, balconies and terraces of southern France. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTerracotta is the most common, but you'll also find zinc, cast iron and stone... with clean simple lines alongside moulded detailing, handles and raised motifs from another age. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat sets them apart? The lime crusted on their walls, the moss tucked into a hollow, the kind of patina only the seasons know how to compose. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChosen one by one during our rounds of the brocantes and estate sales of Provence, they instantly give a garden or terrace the lived-in look of places where plants have always belonged.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"antique-french-terracotta-confit-pot-two-handles","title":"Early 19th Century French Terracotta Pot | Jaspé Décor | Slipware","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis antique French terracotta pot has one of those little details that completely pulls you in once you notice it. Around the entire circumference, hand painted in cream and green slip, is a row of tiny birds drawn freehand one by one. No two are exactly alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLikely first half of the 19th century, possibly earlier, and very much in the spirit of old Savoyard slipware pottery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe pot itself is wonderfully grounded. Rounded body, two strap handles and a delicate, scalloped slip band at the neck. It has a rich iron red glaze covering the upper portion while the base remains bare terracotta. You can still see where the slip horn moved quickly across the surface making each bird with just a few strokes. Inside, the glaze pools deeply the way early lead glazes do, while the outside carries heavy mineral wear and surface loss from a very long working life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is exactly the kind of old pottery that engages its surroundings from the second you set it down. The birds are what make it though. Quiet, playful, completely handmade, and just waiting to be placed on a farmhouse table illuminated in light. A really wonderful piece of French country pottery.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Provence Collection","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52394914152791,"sku":"CER-049","price":555.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/4686\/4215\/files\/antique-french-terracotta-confit-pot-two-handles-2.jpg?v=1766332147"},{"product_id":"french-vintage-handmade-terracotta-cooking-pot-kitchen","title":"Antique French Toupin | Glazed Terracotta | 19th Century Cooking Pot","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis antique French toupin is the kind of old cooking pot that tells you exactly what kind of life it lived the second you pick it up. Hand thrown in the South of France during the 19th century, it was made for the hearth, for soups left to simmer slowly near the fire and sauces worked low over embers. The warm yellow glaze is pure Provence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe shape is fantastic too. It has a rounded body, flared collar rim and a single side handle that sits far enough back to stay cooler while cooking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe glaze wraps the rim, collar, and interior, while the lower terracotta body was left bare and has darkened naturally from years near the fire. One side carries deeper fire wear than the other, exactly the way these old pots aged in real kitchens.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the kind of pottery that immediately grounds a space. Wooden spoons in it by the stove, dried lavender on a farmhouse table, or sitting beside copper and old cutting boards on open shelving. Nothing polished or precious about it. Just a really beautiful old Provençal cooking pot with all the right wear still intact.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Provence Collection","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52394963960151,"sku":"CER-033","price":255.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/4686\/4215\/files\/french-vintage-handmade-terracotta-cooking-pot-kitchen-2.jpg?v=1766333019"},{"product_id":"double-handled-jug-glazed-earthenware-vintage","title":"Antique French Rillettes Pot | Glazed Earthenware | Tigré Drip Glaze","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis antique French pot à rillettes (rillettes pot) is exactly the kind of kitchen pottery that is simply just amazing to have around. Small, practical, and completely tied to daily life in a country kitchen. Likely thrown sometime between 1880 and 1920, it would have held duck or pork rillettes sealed under fat and kept close at hand in the pantry or cellar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe shape is squat and sturdy with a rounded bell and two hand pulled strap handles that do not quite mirror one another, which honestly makes it better. The glaze is what really carries the piece though. Rich iron brown with long tigré (tiger stripe) drips of green and manganese black running down the body from the firing. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the kind of little French pot that fits anywhere. Beside the stove holding sea salt, on a shelf with old wood and copper, or simply sitting on its own where the glaze can do the work. Small pieces like this are easy to live with and hard to stop looking at once they are there.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Provence Collection","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52394967007575,"sku":"CER-036","price":235.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/4686\/4215\/files\/double-handled-jug-glazed-earthenware-vintage-2.jpg?v=1766333079"},{"product_id":"18th-century-style-french-faience-brush-pot-hand-painted-ceramic","title":"Antique French Faience Cache Pot | 18th Century | Hand Painted Chinoiserie","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis antique French faïence cache pot is the kind of find that almost makes you stop breathing for a second when you spot it. An 18th century petit feu (low fired enamel) piece in the Louis XV taste, with the kind of softly shaped chantourné silhouette and hand painted floral decoration associated with Marseille and Sceaux faience from the third quarter of the 1700s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe painting is beautiful throughout, with delicate bouquets in soft pinks, yellows, and lavender tones framed by fine manganese purple lines, but the real surprise is underneath.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe base carries a hand painted chinoiserie scene with a small figure holding a parasol beside flowering branches and foliage. That kind of detail was done for pride as much as decoration, meant for a piece that would actually be lifted and admired in the hand. You rarely see that level of attention on later revival faïence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the kind of piece that does not need much around it. A few garden flowers on a windowsill, sitting on a bureau, or simply left empty where the painting can speak for itself. True 18th century French faïence with charm and proof that it was well looked after for centuries. Amazing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Provence Collection","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52408447402327,"sku":"FAI-020","price":1895.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/4686\/4215\/files\/18th-century-style-french-faience-brush-pot-hand-painted-ceramic-2.jpg?v=1766573398"},{"product_id":"antique-brass-repousse-jardiniere-with-fruit-motif","title":"Vintage Swiss Brass Jardiniere | Embossed Fruit Motif | Mid Century","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis vintage Swiss brass jardinière has exactly the kind of balanced, elegant shape that works effortlessly on a dining table, console, or foyer. Made in Geneva and stamped Forestier et Cie Genève underneath alongside a Geneva control mark, it likely dates somewhere between the 1920s and 1940s. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe brass body is worked in repoussé (hammered relief work), with clusters of fruit and foliage standing across the oval planter. A softly scalloped rim runs the full length and inside the original green liner remains in place. It shows wear from decades of use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe brass has mellowed beautifully over time into a warm golden tone with light oxidation throughout. Even the underside carries lovely detail, with radial sunburst tooling surrounding the maker’s mark.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFilled with hydrangeas, olive branches, or even little terracotta herb pots, this old Geneva cachepot brings an easy sense of warmth and occasion without feeling overly formal. The kind of centerpiece that quietly elevates a room the second it is set down.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Provence Collection","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52408629395799,"sku":"DEC-032","price":565.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/4686\/4215\/files\/DEC-032-3.jpg?v=1766573737"},{"product_id":"antique-french-copper-poissonniere-jardiniere-verdigris-patina","title":"Antique French Copper Poissonnière | Jardinière | Verdigris Patina","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis antique French copper poissonnière (fish poacher) caught my attention because the verdigris has completely transformed it. It began its life as a fish poacher, made for cooking whole fish in a French kitchen. But today, with that deep blue-green patina running across the copper, it has become something else entirely... a beautiful jardinière (decorative planter) with the feeling of an old courtyard in the South of France.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe color is the story here. The verdigris has formed slowly over time, moving across the interior and exterior in layers of blue, green, grey, and warm copper. You can still see the original copper underneath in places, which gives the whole piece depth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis antique French copper fish poacher likely dates from the mid to late 19th century, circa 1850 to 1890, consistent with its construction. The oval body has riveted brass handles at each end, a rolled rim reinforced with iron wire inside, and a horizontal reinforcement band around the lower body. Turn it over and you can see the dovetailed seams along the base, where the base plate was joined to the side wall in the traditional manner.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally, this would have been used for poaching fish over gentle heat, most likely in a working regional French kitchen. The long oval shape was practical, built to hold the fish properly without crowding it. Like so many old French kitchen pieces, it was made for a very specific job and built well enough to survive far beyond its original purpose.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eToday, it is absolutely beautiful as a planter for the garden.  Maybe you fill it with potted rosemary plants on the windowsill... or set it on a farmhouse table, a console or against a courtyard wall filled with flowers or seasonal greenery. It brings that old French garden feeling into a room instantly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is something very special about a piece that has moved from the kitchen to the garden so naturally. 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The raw terracotta shows through at the foot and along the rim, where the pot stood in the kiln.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe blue antique French glazed pot is turned earthenware, glazed outside and left raw within. The partial dip reads in the sandy unglazed bands at base and lip, the way these country pieces were always finished. A drainage hole runs through the foot, so this Medici planter was made to hold a plant. Wheel marks ring the body and the glaze pools darker in the turns.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePicture it on a windowsill catching the morning light, a small olive or a geranium settled inside, a little of the South of France brought indoors. The blue has the depth only aged glaze carries, quiet and steady after more than a century. Most of these did not survive the century. This one did.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Provence Collection","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53671356891479,"sku":"CER-135","price":315.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/4686\/4215\/files\/blue-glazed-terracotta-flowerpot-medici-provence-2.jpg?v=1781032093"},{"product_id":"antique-french-pichet-jaune-vernisse-pouring-jug-early-to-mid-19th-century","title":"Antique French Pichet | Yellow Glazed Terracotta Hanging Planter | 19th Century","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe yellow is the thing here. This antique French yellow glazed pichet has that warm, sunny color that immediately brings the South of France into the room. It feels cheerful, rustic and full of life, with a rounded body, pinched pouring spout, arched handle and soft worn glaze that could only come from age and use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis piece likely dates from the early to mid 19th century and is consistent with regional French terre vernissée, or glazed earthenware, from the South of France. The glaze is a rich jaune vernissé, that ochre-yellow finish so strongly connected to southern French kitchens, pottery workshops and country houses. It was made by hand, and it definitely shows.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe form suggests that this was first used as a pichet, or pouring jug, before it was later pierced and given a second life as a planter. The small pinched spout would have allowed liquid to be poured, while the high arched handle likely made it easy to hang from a wall peg and keep within reach in the kitchen. It may also have helped when pouring, but the whole shape feels especially practical for a piece that could be hung close at hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe glaze has worn and flaked across the exterior, revealing pale clay underneath in scattered patches. Those losses are not something to hide here. They give the pot its rhythm, almost like little flashes of light across the yellow surface. The interior is unglazed terracotta, with mineral deposits and age visible inside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt some point in its life, a small drainage hole was added to the base, turning this old pouring jug into a hanging planter. That detail is really wonderful. Someone looked at this piece and decided it still had more life to give.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eToday, it would be beautiful with dried lavender, utensils, a small potted plant, herbs, bulbs or seasonal greenery. Set on a kitchen shelf, hung from a hook, or placed near a sunny window, it brings that easy Provençal feeling into the home: useful once, loved again, and full of southern French color.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Provence Collection","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53671360889175,"sku":"CER-134","price":485.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/4686\/4215\/files\/antique-french-pichet-jaune-vernisse-pouring-jug-2.jpg?v=1781031876"}],"url":"https:\/\/theprovencecollection.com\/collections\/jardinieres-and-pots\/room_garden.oembed","provider":"The Provence Collection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}