12.5 INCHES !!!!

THE UTILITARIAN USE AND DESIGNS OF THESE WORKING POTERIES ARE THE MOST POPULAR WITH AMERICANS. TOP ATELIER OF 'TERRES VERNISSÉES', ESPECIALLY THE POT À CONFIT. CASTELNAUDARY IS BETWEEN MONTPELIER AND TOULOUSE IN THE REGION OF THE LANGUEDOC. THIS STUNNING CONFIT WITH ITS PATINA OF THE MUSTARD-YELLOW GLAZE AND DRIPS THAT CAN ONLY COME FROM KILNS OF THE 18-19TH C. IS CALLED 'THE BIG ONES'. THESE WERE THE LARGEST SIZES CONFIT POTS FOR REAL STORAGE OF CONFIT. THEY WERE ONLY MADE IN CASTELNAUDARY UNTIL ABOUT MID-19TH C. THIS CONFIT AS ONE OF THE 'GRAND ONES', IS END OF THE 18TH C..  ONLY FROM AGE CAN YOU OBTAIN SUCH BEAUTIFUL DRIPS AND SUN KISSED GLAZE AND THAT STUNNING RARE EMERALD GREEN MADE BY MISTAKE AS IT DRIPPED DOWN FROM THE PACKED LEVEL ABOVE, IS QUITE A 'MISTAKE'

THE HOT SUMMER WITH CONFIT DRIPPING OVER THE SIDES AS IT SAT IN THE LANGUEDOC SUN, THE YELLOW AND GREEN GLAZE AND UNGLAZED PIECE BEING PROFOUNDLY FOREVER MADE AS ONE OF A KIND MAKES THESE PIECES WHAT THEY ARE. 'CES POTERIES UTILITARIAN, ART DE VERNISSÉE, ILS SONT POUR LE PLAISIR, PREMIEREMENT. DE REGARDER, PAS DU VALEUR' . " THESE WORKS OF ANTIQUE POTTERY IS FOR THE PLEASURE, ALWAYS THE PLEASURE OF TO REGARDER THEM, NOT THE VALUE IN MONEY" (MY ADOPTED FRENCH POPA WHO IS ONE OF THE TOP EPERTS IN FRANCE OF THIS GENRE. LOOK UP 'PIERRE CARRAZE', ALWAYS SAID THAT TO ME) DRIPS. DRIPS. GREEN.GREEN. THERE IS JUST ANTIQUE WEAR AND TEAR AROUND THE RIM!!  THE REAL MCCOY OF THE AUTHENTIC POT À CONFIT.