Antique Pale Ocher Glazed Ceramic Serving Bowl - Octagonal 11½"

A large pale ocher serving bowl from Patricia Wells’s personal collection, a beloved Paris flea market find that has lived on her tables in Paris and at Chanteduc. In glazed ceramic, its octagonal profile and stepped rim give measured structure, while the pale, milky ocher glaze reads warm and natural with a gentle sheen that flatters whatever it carries. Patricia explains that she still reaches for it regularly, valuing how it settles into both everyday meals and generous gatherings. Broad and low with a generous well, it is perfectly scaled for a family salad, a tumble of roasted garden vegetables, or a fragrant pile of stone fruit. Its intelligent simplicity aligns with Patricia’s cooking, teaching, and writing, where usefulness and clarity lead. Place it at the center of a farmhouse table with greens from the garden, heap it with clementines on a sideboard, or present a composed grain salad for a crowd. Useful and companionable, this faithful bowl brings the welcoming rhythm of Patricia’s Paris and Provence to any setting.