This planter was made at Belfields Pottery in Prestonpans. They produced a wide range of domestic wares, especially teapots. The brown, treacle glaze or 'Rockingham' style is characteristic of much of the pottery's later pieces.

This earthenware planter or pot-holder has an irregular base and striated sides with protruding, circular stumps representing sawn branches, picked out by pooling of the rich brown glaze.

Belfield's Pottery was the last survivor of the Prestonpans ceramic industry. It operated for over a century on a site near the west end of the town, beside the seaside. The site had also been used for a works making industrial acids and basic chemicals and had been a saltworks before that.