Handcrafted ceramic dark brown heads made by the skilled hands of the artisans of Santo Stefano di Camastra.
Height: approximately 24cm
Sold as a pair: the Moro and the Fanciulla
Each piece is unique and every apparent "defect" guarantees it greater uniqueness.
Created and handcrafted in Sicily, Italy
Did you know that...
For few other places like Sicily, talking about "typical products" means starting a journey within the journey, encountering artisanal processes that
they reveal perspectives of time and suggest images of places. Important in the field of craftsmanship is S. Stefano di Camastra, the
largest ceramic production center in Sicily, which also represents one of the most interesting traditional tourist itineraries and
also called the "country of ceramics". This is how this very active center on the borders of the provinces of is better known throughout the world
Palermo and Messina.
Having assimilated the color and glaze techniques of Neapolitan artisans, they will give life, for a total of 1,800, to an innumerable series of tiles
majolica tiles which, due to their originality, are the expression of a specific moment in the history of Sicilian art. The birth of the art of
real ceramics can be traced back to the early 1900s when we moved from an exclusively economic production consisting of
terracotta objects such as vases, jars, "quartare and bummuli" to artistic ceramics which have become increasingly refined over the years and
today it constitutes the backbone of the Stefano economy.
A particular country, one of a kind: wherever you turn, you see plates, tiles, mosaics, all made in very colorful
ceramic.
The production of ceramic objects in Santo Stefano di Camastra began about three hundred years ago, in
consequence of a calamitous event, which destroyed the original position of the town, forcing the inhabitants to move to a new one
location further downstream. The need to build new homes led the people of Stefano to exploit a material that is very present in the area, clay.
Alongside traditional production, a certain diversification has developed, brought about above all by young companies, driven to enter
in the system with a certain amount of product innovation.
