If you have an addiction for Deruta pottery, it's time to show it off, following your personal style and inclination. You can choose among 60 designs and thousands of hand made pottery pieces:

Deruta dinnerware for cozy family meals or a stylish formal table
Deruta serving ware to add a highlight to a plain colored dinnerware set.
Deruta kitchenware to spice up your kitchen
Deruta decoration accents to impress your interior decorator
Deruta tiles to give your personal touch to your walls, floors, backsplash
Deruta keepsakes as a timeless memento for the guests of your own special day

In the unlikely event your do not find exactly what you're looking for, contact us and tell us what you're looking for. We'll have it especially made for you.

Italian Ceramics: shop online with us!

Meet us in Italy, at thatsArte.com. You will relish the pleasure of strolling along the main streets of Deruta, Gubbio or Florence with an experienced Italian friend, hunting for the loveliest hand made Italian ceramics.

We'll introduce you to the most talented Italian artists, some of them already famous, some still unknown outside Italy, and show you our selection of their best pottery pieces: more than 4,000 items, representing the core of quality Italian dinnerware, serveware, kitchenware, decorative majolica, tables and keepsakes.

Shop the Italian pottery that better fits your style and make your ceramics your own, using our free personalization service. The short message you'll write in the order form will be hand painted under your pieces at no extra cost.

Most of the Renaissance Italian ceramic masterpieces were commissioned by noblemen from their favorite artists. Still today, in Italy we often order tailor made pieces for our special home accents. You can do the same using our Special Order Service. We are based in Italy, therefore we can personally discuss your wish with the artists and follow up the making of your unique Italian ceramic piece.

Shopping at thatsArte.com you'll enjoy the advantages of buying in Italy, without extra costs or extra worries. Feel at ease when making your choice, thanks to our Free Trial service. No shipping charges are due for all orders above $400. Custom fees are always on us.

Passionate about Italian ceramics? Enjoy thatsArte.com, just like us!

A quick glance at our Italian ceramics: tableware and decorative pottery

Among our reasons of pride is our large selection of Italian dinnerware. We feature more than 70 original settings, possibly the largest assortment on line.

Browse for the perfect setting that fits your style: you'll find formal dinnerware patterns and simple designs for everyday, floral or geometric trims, colorful, tailored looks and modern grace, traditional and classic settings.

Matching Italian serveware and Italian kitchenware are usually available for each dinnerware pattern, and so are some specialty pottery pieces, like the beautiful fruit drainer with platter by Grazia or the most useful cutting boards by Ima.       

Our Italian ceramics are never commonplace, even when it comes to the most traditional Italian tableware, like the Raffaellesco, Ricco Deruta or Arabesco.   Available in every ceramic store in Deruta, it took us a long time, to find the quality you deserve. We've chosen Fima, a small, family run company. Exquisite elegance and subtle refinement are a common characteristic for all their ceramic dinnerware, be it a traditional Italian bowl or a modern Italian platter. Their vario dinnerware patterns– vario stands for geometric, a typical Renaissance rim design – are designed to highlight any table, be it formal or everyday, through décor changes and design trends.

During one of our frequent huntings for artful Deruta ceramics, we spotted a tiny lab run by two young artists,  D&G Design.  We were fascinated by their modern tableware and we asked them to be part of our collection of talented artists.  Be it a traditional Italian plate, a modern bowl, a decorative wall plate or a vase, their pottery always has a distinctive touch either in the color combination, or in the decoration technique or in the design. Our new artists are always worth knowing more: do browse all D&G beautiful Italian pottery!

A thorough collection of Italian tableware cannot do without the exquisite elegance of the Tuscan dinnerware. We personally love the cozy appeal embodied by fruit patterns, and we found some beautiful ones at Ceramiche Ammannati, in Montelupo.
Each fruit collection we present strikes a different emotional chord. Browse to know which is more appealing to you, if the bursting vitality of our Toscana Rosso trays, or the welcoming charm of our Campagna espresso cup, or the cheerful refinement the Frutta Rosso fruit bowls.

Our full Italian dinnerware assortment is complemented by a choice of serving accessories, for any occasion. Do you often invite friends over for a buffet dinner? Then you'll need lots of platters, and serving bowls. Do you like a nice breakfast table to cheer you up before work? We have nice Italian mugs with matching creamer & sugar bowl, and butter dish. Beautiful kitchenware is also available for most of the settings we feature, such as richly decorated Italian biscotti jars, fine Italian canister sets, or lovely Italian utensil holders.

This web site is born out of our passion for Italian majolica. As avid and highly informed collectors, mostly of decoration pottery, we know many of the finest artists of Italian ceramics, representing various regional styles, intersecting both antique and modern culture.

Shopping for ornamental Italian pottery is the best way to make your home your own, or to make a unique, personalized gift for those who mean the most to you.

Join us in a short tour over our choice of decorative Italian majolica. Let's start from the Sicilian pottery from Caltagirone, where we meet Giacomo Alessi. His unique Italian ceramic pieces, like the head planters or his Fangotto wall plates, talk the language of Sicily, of its rich colors and Baroque heritage. But there is more than that in Alessi's ceramics: Sicilian legends, Greek myths, modern satire, learned quotations and hilarious stories inspire his hands when molding his fancy candle holders, the figurative spice dishes, the animal figurines or, our favourite pieces, his centrepiece domes.

Our next destination is Montelupo, in Tuscany.
Here, we meet ND Dolfi, whose textured pieces in brilliant unusual colors have such a strong personality and physical relevance (most of them are quite large) to represent the ultimate decoration touch in any home, be it modern or classic.
Their vases, as all their other beautiful Italian ceramics including their huge centerpiece bowls, are hand molded and then finished with the painstaking application of hand made “raised” elements, such as rings, dots, pine scales.

Let's now move to Umbria, the green heart of Italy. Placed apart on a steep hill, protected by the surrounding mountains, the fame of Gubbio as a production center of fine Italian ceramics is mainly due to Mastro Giorgio's lustreware, whose tradition is still alive in town thanks to the splendid works of artists like Magnanelli. Their lustre wall plates are unique collector's pieces, whose value is bound to grow over time. They are also masters in painting the traditional Gubbio design: elaborate dragons, leaves and baskets decorate scrolled handled centrepieces, footed jars and umbrella stands, all bearing a charming antique finish.

The most charming Renaissance pattern in Gubbio is to be found at Ceramiche Rampini. Their simple yet touching istoriato wall plates, their lovely planters, their refined Italian tableware are not to be left behind without a second thought.

Only one hour by car and we are in Deruta. Here the Italian ceramics have quite different designs. 
Oversimplifying the richness of the local tradition we can mention three different creative areas:  the Raffaellesco and the Ricco patterns, the geometric (vario) patterns and the Renaissance istoriato ware, which depicts elaborated scenes (stories) or portraits. One of the finest artists of istoriato ware in Deruta is Alvaro Binaglia, whose talented hand creates real masterpieces in the shape of apothecary jars, istoriato Italian wall plates and centrepieces, beautiful lamps. 

We are very pleased to present at thatsArte.com the exquisitely elegant Italian ceramic tables created by L'Antica Deruta, a very eclectic artisanal fabbrica. The secret to the beauty and charm of their very unique Italian tables lies in the creative combination of hand painted majolica with simple, local materials, such as travertine, earthenware, iron. We also feature their richly decorated Italian ceramic tiles, their stylish tableware and some luxurious ornamental pottery.

We also decided to devote some time to collect for you nice Italian keepsakes, that can be used as unique, personalized gifts or as original wedding “bomboniere”. In Italy, we call “bomboniere” the traditional gifts that the bride and the groom give to all their honored guests after the reception to thank them for having been there. A smaller, thoughtful keepsake is also given to anyone who has sent a present to honor the new couple. 
We do the same thing for a baptism and a christening.
All the keepsakes you find amongst our collection of Italian ceramics can be customized by adding your initials and the date of your special day. The personalization is completely free of charge.