Antique rice wine pot

A beautifully old, white washed Chinese rice wine pot from Hunan Province, China.

These pots have been used in rice wine breweries to let yellow rice wine ferment outside during winter before selling it. The practice of using this kind of pots for making rice wine goes back over 2,000 years, and they are still used today for traditionally made rice wine. They date back to 1950.

h 30cm, dia 19cm (approximate)m