Each piece is completely handcrafted and signed "Peter Pots 75 Years." There is a slight variation between pieces. The Whatnot Bowl is made to order. Please allow up to 2-weeks for our potters to make your piece.

Why this bowl is important…

While the Whatnot Bowl looks like a basic, round bowl, its simplicity belies a lifetime of design and represents the entirety of a craftsman’s body of work. Artisans and craftspeople begin their careers by perfecting what they have been taught and mastering the medium in which it is made. Shaped by design trends and popular taste, their work begins to reflect these other influences and evolves over time. In the case of Peter Pots designs, we were born into the Mid-Century Modern movement, creating designs of fluid form.

With the 1960s, our designs turned to practical and functional, but still stylish, dinnerware. Through the rest of the 20th century, our designs have remained functional, but with a nod to the trends that have come and gone, everything from mod, to whimsical, to classic. 

What Oliver Greene put into the never-produced Whatnot Bowl was the sum total of all these experiences, mindful of the fact that when all the trends have come and gone, the essence of fine craft is a timeless and pleasing design. Perhaps then, instead of seeing this as a simple bowl, we should recognize it as 75 years worth of thoughts, sketches, wrong turns, dead ends, successful designs, and experimental versions, all distilled down into one final and enduring example.