Decorative spice dish "Pine cones" - 5 pcs by Giacomo Alessi

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The Italian name for the central piece of this set is “Saliera” - salt dish. As a highly valued ingredient throughout history, salt was one of the primary movers of national economies and essential to the maintenance of life. That’s why it was always kept in precious containers. Noble families used to set their table with a monumental salt dish on the lord’s right and a smaller one at the other end of the table. During the Renaissance, the salt dish -- made of ceramic, bone china, silver or gold -- became a key decoration piece for formal tables. In the following century, it changed into a spice dish, shaped to also contain pepper and other spices. 
Giacomo Alessi is one of the most admired ceramic artists in Italy. His exhibitions are always very successful and his art pieces are very well appraised.
His work is full of poetry. Myths, wars, legends, human virtues and vices are the vital material of his ceramic Art, with the colors and the vitality of the Sicilian Baroque heritage.
This beautiful set includes a large spice dish and 4 smaller pine cones.
Note: price refers to the set (5 pieces).

Product availability: if not in stock, Alessi’s pottery is available in 8/12 weeks.
Product information: Alessi’s ceramics are to be used for decoration purpose only. Their beauty is in fact due to the use of traditional colours and glazes.

ALE301COMP

inches: large piece 5 x 4h - small pieces 2 x 3h

$223

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