White Moorish Heads with Bordeaux and Yellow decorations with Lemons and Flowers - Sicilian Caltagirone Ceramic 30 cm

Moorish heads in Caltagirone ceramic decorated with lemons and sunflowers and colored in yellow and bordeaux

The Ceramics of Caltagirone, with its marvelous artistic and artisan masterpieces, is established all over the world thanks to the skilled hands of local artisans and exported all over the world, the Moor's Heads are reproduced in pairs and are symbols of Sicily par excellence.

Entirely modeled and decorated by hand by the master craftsmen of Caltagirone, who take care of every single detail to make it a real object of art, an icon of centuries-old tradition and culture.

In this case, you can choose between Man and Woman, finding in both the beauty and charm of Sicilian art with applications depicting lemons and colorful flowers.

Both Ceramic Heads are decorated with a veil with shades of Yellow with black details and a burgundy veil. Also in both you can find Red and Blue Sunflowers, Bright Yellow Lemons, Green Leaves

Perfect as a classy gift idea, perhaps combining both Man and Woman, recreating the couple, to furnish any environment, a shop, or a house or a garden with style and elegance, perhaps with a beautiful plant or fresh flowers inside .

Its dimensions are 19 x 30 cm.

HISTORY OF THE MOOR'S HEADS

The Moorish heads are one of the symbols that best represent the tradition of Caltagirone ceramics.

These small sculptures are often used as decorative elements to embellish houses, theatres, cinemas, but also squares and cities

Its legend has various facets, the most macabre begins in Palermo in the Arab quarter 'Al Hâlisah, today called the Kalsa, where the sultan once stayed, due to the Arab domination in Sicily.

The sultan, one day seeing a girl passing under his balcony, fell in love with her. The girl reciprocated and from here a love story was born.

But the story changed when the girl discovered that the sultan had a family and children in her country of origin, so during the night she killed him with a sword and cut off his head, which once severed she used as a flower vase on his balcony.

Another legend, perhaps more realistic, says that the girl, who was of noble origins, had a clandestine love affair with a young Arab. This love, which was impossible for the times, when it was discovered by the girl's family caused a stir, leading to the beheading of the two young lovers.

The shame of this love would later be proclaimed by posting both heads, transformed into vases for the occasion, on a balcony. The massacre, exalted by the heads placed on passers-by, would have been a warning against any other possible unseemly passion.

For this reason the Sicilian Moorish Heads are made in pairs, in memory and in honor of the two murdered lovers.