About this product
Handcrafted in the village of Tunis — a picturesque settlement nestled between Lake Qaroun and the desert dunes of the Fayoum Oasis — the Vines Ceramic Serving Plate is one of the most expansive expressions of the Tunis pottery tradition in the KILIIM collection.
In the 1980s, Swiss ceramic artist Evelyn Porret founded a pottery school in Tunis, introducing the village children to the craft of clay. Her graduates became the village's master potters, shaping a distinctly Tunisian aesthetic: hand-formed pieces adorned with primitive motifs drawn from the local flora and fauna. Each piece is shaped from clay sourced along the Nile banks of Aswan, then hand-glazed and painted by hand — no two are identical.
The Vines Ceramic Serving Plate features a lush, sprawling leaf and vine motif painted across its broad surface in rich greens and earthy tones. At 12.5 inches across, it commands a table with ease — for mezze, cheese, fruit, or simply as a centrepiece in its own right. Its collected, global character makes it equally at home in a modern interior as a rustic one. Slight variations in colour and form are not imperfections — they are evidence of the hands that made it.
Lead-free and food-safe. A piece with the energy of a whole garden.
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