Large hollow ceramic dish signed Salamò La Bisbal (Spain)

2750 - in glazed terracotta, entirely handmade, this old large hollow dish very decorative decorated with fish and polychrome seaweed on a blue background signed on the reverse "salamò la bisbal" in good condition. No cracks or splinters. Diameter 315 mm, height 63 mm. Weight 1010 g. Neat and tracked shipment. For information, pottery in la bisbal d'empordà (spain-catalonia) has a long history since documents attest to the presence of potters in 1502. It is limited to local production until the seventeenth century before taking off this from the seventeenth century knowing the golden age from the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century. Since then, with the tourism boom, production has focused mainly on decorative ceramics and those intended for construction. The terracotta museum (inaugurated in 1991) and a ceramics school preserve, preserve and disseminate this material and cultural heritage.

Ref. : 7BEQ1KU9