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This terracotta vase is decorated with palmetta (small palm) motifs, in alternating dark and light bands, designed by this artisan drawing on the motif of a ceramic fragment of Oristano dating back to the sixteenth century.
The irregular shape of this large ceramic plate tells a momentous story finely drawn with graphic and pictorial trait and populated by an oneiric world of animals with horses, lapwings and other naturalistic elements in very light nuanced shades.
The original circular shape of the bed headboard is made of chestnut wood and is decorated with an elegant central motif depicting a Sun with a stylised face and carved frames, being the obvious compositional craftsmanship and artistic skill.
The storage unit equipped with a flap door, is richly decorated with incisions of antique motifs, carefully selected by the craftsman from a repertoire of traditional Sardinian wedding chests: half rosettes, stylised ears, antique lapwings.
The Balentes, traditionally proud men with a strict moral code, are expressively and accurately represented in these sculptures, in a strongly felt memory of this artisan which dates back to the 1960s and 1970s, when the local balentes regularly on Sunday mornings eyed the women coming o
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