KOTYLAI POT - 8.5"x9.5"
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KOTYLAI POT - 8.5"x9.5" is backordered and will ship as soon as it is back in stock.
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Product Dimensions
Product Dimensions
Medium:7.0"x8.0"
Small:5.5"x6.5"
Product Dimensions
Product Dimensions
Medium:7.0"x8.0"
Small:5.5"x6.5"
KOTYLAI POT
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Kotylai Pot - Timeless Terracotta Planter
The Kotylai Pot is a hand-built vessel from our Tuscan Sun collection, wearing a dusty blue wash that has done its weathering already.
Taller Than It Is Wide
The kotyle was the drinking cup of the ancient Greek table, and these proportions borrow from it. The base sits narrow, the walls open outward on a slow line, and the mouth finishes plain but for a faint ridge below the rim. That gives you a Tall Terracotta Planter in a small footprint, useful where width is the problem. As a Tapered Terracotta Planter it throws the eye upward, so a short plant looks taller. Nothing is decorated, which makes it a Greek Terracotta Pot in the honest sense.
Chalk Blue Over Bare Clay
The blue is dry and powdery rather than glossy, thin enough that pink-orange clay reads clearly inside the rim and along the knocks. Gray-green mottling gathers in patches like lichen on old stone. Some come through mostly blue, others closer to storm gray. Fingerprints and ridges stay visible, the difference between a Handmade Terracotta Pot and something molded.
Three Sizes, Sold Singly
Each size ships on its own in an aged color assortment: buy one, or take all three and build a graduated group. No two weather alike, and every Handcrafted Clay Planter carries its own balance of blue to gray. In threes these read like collectedTerracotta Garden Pots rather than a matched set.
Where to Use Kotylai Pot
A windowsill, a bathroom shelf, a console table, a step beside a door. The upright form suits a single fern, a trailing plant spilling over one side, or cut stems alone. As a Mediterranean Terracotta Planter it earns its keep against stucco, limewashed brick, or teak. Used as an Outdoor Terracotta Planter, keep it under a porch rather than in open rain, and bring it in before a hard freeze. Pair it with the Kalathos Pot for contrast, or browse our Greek Terracotta Planters for larger classical forms.
Know More About Kotylai Pot
Which plants suit a tall, narrow shape like this?
Which plants suit a tall, narrow shape like this?
Anything that grows up rather than out. A small Boston fern, a sansevieria, or string of pearls spilling over one edge all work. Roots here go down instead of spreading, so upright growers settle faster than mounding ones.
Why does one pot look blue and another almost gray?
Why does one pot look blue and another almost gray?
The aged coloring is applied by hand, so the balance shifts piece to piece and the mottling lands where it lands. That variation is the appeal of the finish, not a flaw. Order two and expect a pair that belong together without being identical.
Can I use it indoors, and does it need something underneath?
Can I use it indoors, and does it need something underneath?
Yes indoors, with protection underneath. The unglazed base breathes, so set it on a saucer or felt pads before it goes on wood, stone, or paint. Without one you will find a pale ring once it has sat a while.
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