Rows of raised scallops run the whole way around this stoneware planter, so the glaze pools dark in every hollow and catches gold on every ridge. The reactive amber brown finish stops short of the base, leaving a speckled band of raw clay that grounds the whole thing and keeps it from reading as shiny.

At 7.75 inches round and 7.5 inches tall it is the size that solves a bare corner of a console or a wide kitchen counter. The texture does the work here: put anything green in it, even a plain trailing ivy, and the pot reads as the deliberate object in the room rather than the container the plant came in.