Pair of Antique French Terracotta Fruit Topiary

The Antique Large Greek Terracotta Pot is a striking example of ancient craftsmanship, designed to serve both functional and decorative purposes. This imposing planter, characterized...

Elegant and timeless, this pair of 19th-century Italian Florentine mirrors imply opulence and sophistication. Crafted with meticulous detail, each mirror features a lavish gold gilt ...

A very realistic rendering of a tower of fruit, this pair of creamware topiaries was produced in Italy during the mid-1900s. Creamware is a type of...

Pair of resin dishes in glazed terracotta. In the South West of France, the country named Landes was a poor country having very few natural resources, the inhabitants lived on meager harvests whose land was manured by their flocks of sheep. The Landais also exploited the resin of the maritime pine: it was collected at the foot of the tree using a very artisanal technique which offered low yields: tapping with “crot” (from the Gascon cròt: hole). To harvest the resin, ancient resin workers dug a hole at the foot of the pine, generally between the roots, which they lined with moss. The resin obtained, if it had not crystallized on the care before arriving at the base of the pine, was full of impurities: twigs, sand, insects, and it contained very little turpentine. A first progress was to put dishes at the bottom of these holes which made it possible to collect the resin with fewer impurities, In 1844, the resin pot...