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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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