Dark Brown Moorish Man Head with Bordeaux Crown - Classic Moorish Heads of Caltagirone - Height 20 cm

Sicilian Ceramic Moor's Heads - Crowned Moor Man decorated with a Bordeaux drape

The Ceramics of Caltagirone that comes from the skilled hands of local artisans, skilled in creating wonderful artisanal artistic masterpieces, is established all over the world, and specifically, the Moorish Heads in Caltagirone Ceramics are the symbols that represent Sicily par excellence.

This Moorish Head represents "the Moor" who in this case is crowned by a simple White Crown, and is wrapped in bordeaux with white details. Black jewels and other distinctive signs such as a dark mustache are then applied to the face.

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

Perfect as a classy gift idea, perhaps to combine with the Testa di Moro representing the Queen with the Bordeaux drape

It can furnish your home, your garden or your shop with style and elegance, perhaps with a beautiful plant or fresh flowers inside.

Its dimensions are 20 x 11 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.