For years everyone who walked into the studio bought the white pot. We made other colors. We put them out. We waited. Nobody cared. So we made an entire line in nothing but white, purely out of spite — and the white Virago sold immediately, which was not the lesson we were trying to teach.

The Virago Large is a porcelain plant pot for the one that has outgrown everything else — a monstera that has claimed its corner, a snake plant that has decided it is a feature. Porcelain is denser and more refined than standard ceramic, which is excessive for a plant pot and exactly the point. It has a center drainage hole and a detachable saucer, so water leaves the root zone instead of pooling there, and the textured matte glaze shifts with the light across the day.

Chive has made pots by hand since 1999. The Virago is stocked at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and the Atlanta Botanical Garden, and the family runs down through the Virago Medium 5" and the Virago Small 3.5".