It is high fired, so will withstand the frost (not like we had much this year). Size is relative I guess. This is slab built, so larger sizes are hard to do because of slumping. Any time I have tried slab building on a piece this size, I have at least one wall that is wonky.
I commissioned it with the intent of putting an old procumbrens literati that has been moving from a slant to a semi-cascade. But now that I have it in hand it might end up the new pot for a cascade shimpaku.