Wabi sabi US bean pot

This bean pot is about 4.5 inches high, minus the lid and about 6 inches in diameter minus the handle. There is no maker's mark. The only damage to it is a chip on the handle on the lid. Everything else that looks like damage is a manufacturing flaw. The pot was pretty clean and shiny, but the lid was so dull and grungy that at first, I did not think it went with the pot. Some brisk rubbing on it suggested it might be original, but I was not certain until I washed it.

I went on an increasingly desperate search for an old-fashioned wire clothes hanger today and struck out at four thrift shops. Apparently, they have been so completely superseded by plastic hangers that asking for one in a thrift shop make people think you are crazy. At any rate, this is the only thing that I saw which caught my eye. Odd little pot, weird bottom finish, weird finish to the handle on the lid, many flaws, etc., Never seen pot with one handle like this. It would be impossible to pick this pot up by this little handle when full. No idea why or who made this. Pretty sure it is American