AusBonsai

My grandma recently remembered that she had this pot half-buried in the garden. She acquired it in the early 2000s, but my guess is that it’s much older than that.

About 39 x 25 x 6cm. Glazed slightly differently on the long sides. Slightly wobbly and the line underneath seems hand marked, so my guess is that it was handmade?

Any thoughts on the age or origin of this strange pot?

No idea on the origin, but it looks like the drainage holes were drilled out after the ceramic was fired.

It’s a Ikebana Suiban Vase Pot Planter that someone has drilled holes into. Probably Japanese.
Cheers
Kirky

It has no feet either so not the best for draining.

Rub a pencil on some paper over the potters mark and/or use chalk straight on the pot and/or take a photo with the light source pointing across it and the folk here will have a better chance of a positive ID on the maker. Also drainage might be poor but I find as soon as you use wire to tie in your drainage screen or the tree the drainage is fine. A cool and weird pot for sure, thanks for sharing.

It's a very long shot, but the clay and some visible parts of the stamp look similar to Suishoen Hekisui. Do not take that as a positive ID though

Very interesting pot, wish I had some in my yard!

Shape looks like it's straight out of tetris!

So quick update: I found another one on eBay a while back and it said it was of Tokoname origin (that’s nice to know!) The one in the listing did not have holes.