question for the gallery

[elishavah]

What does one do with a bowl like this?

Comments

[eregyrn]

I could be wrong, obviously, but my immediate thought is that it's the bottom into which you would set an equally fancy plant pot. So that when you water the plant, that's where the extra water accumulates, and so on.

I tried to look up what they're called, but in online stores they just call it a saucer.

I bought one very similar to that, though not as shallow, and a solid turquoise green, for a pathos plant in my office. it's deep enough and the plant's pot is shallow enough that I didn't need to put it in a fancy pot, I just plopped it in the saucer and let the plant itself hide the pot.

But I could equally see acquiring a pot in a solid deep blue glaze, to contrast with that as a saucer, if you couldn't find something that matched.

[elishavah]

My first thought was definitely that if it were, like, 1/5 the size, I'd stick one of those metal pokey flower-stand-up-er things in it and use it for that. But I'm pretty sure it wasn't intended for that purpose -- someone gave it to my parents as a bowl. So, yeah, I dunno.

[veejane]

No, I think you're right. My mother owns several of that kind of pot, and uses them to house her orchids, which are in plastic pots. You can also float individual blossoms in the shallow water in the bowl.

[elishavah]

Seriously, this thing is huge. Maybe that is what it's for, but I don't have the counter/table top space to put it! Hrm. Maybe your mother would like another?

Is it a soup tureen?

[kernezelda]

Curved inwards, less likely to spill liquids?

[elishavah]

It seems awfully shallow for that. Not really deep enough for a ladle to do much good, you know?

[kernezelda]

Maybe the previous poster who talked about a plant saucer is right? I'm at a loss.

Hope you're doing well! *gives you a non-allergenic flower*

[destina]

Chamber pot!

Or, you know, tureen.

[elishavah]

Well, I'd certainly never be without a pot to piss in! Thing is seriously huge.

And yeah, I don't know about the soup idea. I mean, the thought did occur, but it's too shallow for a ladle to really get into it without scraping the bottom each time.

[veejane]

Chamber pots are curved like that, but much deeper. The LAST receptacle in which you want spillover or... ricochet... is your chamber pot.

[thepouncer]

Perhaps it was intended to be more decorative than functional?

And can't you plug an image into Google these days and see what it tells you? Or am I having sci-fi dreams because of the heat?

[fourteenlines]

To me, it looks like the type of bowl that's meant to be mainly decorative. I dunno, use it to hold all your remotes on the coffe table???