Female Moor's head with a crown of red apples and a floral decorative band around the bust. It is a Sicilian artistic ceramic, made and hand-painted by the master ceramists of Caltagirone.
They stand out for the richness and originality of the decoration, for the beauty of the face and details, combined with the brilliance of colors and the velvety brightness of the ceramic.
Measures 25 cm in height.
My emotion:
As a child, in the garden of my uncles' house in Palermo, adorning the entrance of the avenue covered by grapevines, there were succulent plants spilling out of red terracotta pots shaped like a Moor's head. Every time I passed by, I looked at them with a mix of unease and fascination. It seemed to me that a form of life had crystallized in those strange objects and that at any moment the Moor's head could come to life and speak.
