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Ceramics

  • This large elegant Summer plate is decorated with a neat light style in light blue shades, with the sun at the centre echoing in stylised trait an old traditional carved chest, surrounded by a flight of lapwings and revisited roundels.

  • Zucca e Tazucca, meaning jug and cup, is an explicit tribute to the agricultural and pastoral Sardinia, used to exploit the elements of Nature as containers for different purposes.

  • The elegantly shaped matte black bottles with a long bright red neck are graphically decorated with concentric circles inspired by the symbols of the Nuragic civilisation.

  • This set of ceramic bowls, featuring and essential and sophisticated linear design coupled with the sheer contrast of colours, is lathe-made manually and available in different and captivating colours, underlining the distictive aspects of the workshop's production.

  • The renowned form of the head of the Nuragic statues of the Giants of Mont'e Prama is revived strikingly with material rendering in this pendant in glazed ceramic in cobalt blue with pure gold details.

Il settore

Local pottery production started during the Neolithic age, featuring peculiar characteristics that evolved during the Nuragic age. Neolithic pottery productions explored the female body, rounded also in pottery production, being a representation of the Mother goddess. Nuragic pottery featured simple and stylized designs, a tribute to the strength of war.
 
In the following ages, the regular exchange of imported pottery, linked to the interaction of different cultures with Sardinia, made it difficult to define what local production really was, since production became a self-sufficient expression of modern age, only when stylistic features and technical procedures were define and kept unchanged until recent times.
 
For instance, terracotta was slipped and glazed. Few and functional models were lathe-crafted: pitchers, marigas, containers, sciveddas, pans, pingiadas, flasks, frascus, bowls, discus, and other types of pots and pouring receptacles.
 
The setting is rural and pastoral. They are objects of daily use, for the transportation and and storage of water, baking, the preparation of desserts and food products. Yet, embellishments and expressive characterizations are also used. The festive versions are used during solemn occasions, anniversaries, rituals, and are part of the set of votive tools. They are made by the most skilled figuli, using graphite and decorated with plastic additions, plant motifs and the figures of saints and other religious and good-luck symbols.
 
 
These productions that belong to the local material culture, together with the productions of other sectors such as hand-made weaving, jewelry, carving and basket weaving, share a secret language, and intimate and evocative jargon.