Large French Ochre Glazed Ceramic Serving Platter - Octagonal

"For serving sliced meats — anything you want to pass around the table," Patricia explains, and this grand ceramic platter from Chanteduc, Patricia and Walter's farmhouse in Vaison-la-Romaine. Patricia loves this color, saying "I'm an ocher girl!"

Sourced from Dieulefit, the small Drôme Provençale village long known for its earthenware tradition, this generous serving plateau is glazed in a warm, sustained ochre — the colour of sunlit stone, of the Provençal landscape itself. The form is classic and confident: a wide rectangular well framed by a broad, angled rim with clipped corners that give it an octagonal outline. The glaze is smooth and even, with a gentle sheen that catches the light.

A platter of this scale and character belongs at the centre of a table set for friends — laden with charcuterie, roasted vegetables, a whole fish or a composed salad. It would sit equally well on a kitchen dresser or sideboard, its ochre glaze holding its own against linen, wood and stone.