About this product
Dense with bougainvillea blossoms, palm trees, and domed adobe rooftops, Tunis is a picturesque village that sits between Lake Qaroun and the desert dunes of the Fayoum Oasis. In the 1980s the Swiss ceramic artist Evelyn Porret introduced the village children to handicrafts when she founded a pottery school there.
Using clay from the Nile banks at Aswan, its graduates have become Tunis's master potters, giving the village and its pottery an aesthetic that cannot be found anywhere else. They adorn each piece with primitive motifs drawn from the flora and fauna around them — here, the cub motif worked in green.
The large plate measures 9.8 inches across. Everything Kiliim makes is handcrafted, so slight variations and imperfections are part of the object rather than faults in it.
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