Ceramic Pine Cone from Caltagirone

The ceramics of Caltagirone today represent the excellence of Sicilian craftsmanship, a precious art, exclusive thanks to its processing, which represents the Sicilian culture and tradition through objects such as decorative pine cones and the famous and beautiful Moorish heads, which have become a must in the world of design and exclusive and trendy furniture.

According to an ancient Sicilian folk tradition that goes down to the present day, the ceramic pine cone is an ornament that cannot be missing in a house as a wish for health, good luck, and prosperity, for this reason, it is customary to decorate the house entrance with Sicilian artistic ceramic pine cones.

We also find the Sicilian pine cone on the pillars of the entrance gates of ancient villas, adorn balconies and terraces, in noble gardens, in monumental cemeteries, on the facades of churches and convents, artistic pine cones have also been depicted in the thrones of kings and popes as the materialization of the soul, as a symbol of the union between earthly and divine.

In the Sicilian peasant tradition, it was used to adorn the bedroom of the newlyweds with pine cones, as a symbol of fertility, to wish the formation of a large family.

H: 10 inches