Daniela Pedone

Presepe in zucca

Name: Presepe in zucca
SKU: 7482
Price: 220.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

Nativities Fabric Porcelain Pumpkin Walnut shell

Single artwork

€220,00

Description by the artist

Inside an elegant ornamental pumpkin (Zucca in Italian), a cold porcelain nativity (presepe in Italian) handmade and unique in the world. Pumpkin grown and treated at home. Cold porcelain, fabric, moss were used. Baby Jesus inside a walnut shell from my garden. My nativities are born from the use of natural materials, poor or recycled. I have created nativities inside oyster shells, ornamental pumpkins, string nests, rudimentary huts and tree barks. The characters inside the nativities are painted on stone with acrylic color, or created using a homemade paste prepared by using cornstarch, vinyl glue and oil, called cold porcelain. They were first modeled, then dressed and painted with care and love.

Details and dimensions

Materials: Fabric Porcelain Pumpkin Walnut shell

Dimensions (cm): Height 27, Width 13, Depth 7

Weight (kg): 0.113

Handcrafted in Sicily

The artwork in the Sicilian culture

By the Governance of Sicilian Artisan Foundation

The work does not have a particular reference to Sicily, but walnuts and pumpkin are certainly elements often found in all the houses and gardens of Sicilians.

Photo Trinacria, Caravaggio

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Daniela Pedone

"I believe that every human being, in their own way, has the task of leaving a trace of their passage on this earth."

The Governance also suggests

The objective of the Governance is both to safeguard the traditions and ancient crafts of the people of Sicily, and to sustain economically the Artisans and the Artists, both the real ethno-anthropologists of the country.