Height: 30 cm
Color: White
Handmade

The artistic ceramics of Sciacca between tradition and innovation. The hippopotamus, as an iconic figure in Michele Bono’s production, evokes the ancient iconography of African and Egyptian populations, but with a contemporary language that draws upon the Pop culture of the 1980s and advertising, making wild animal figures approachable and familiar.

The decoration also reinterprets the classical acanthus leaf, a typical motif of ancient Sciacca art ceramics, rendering it as a delicate texture in blue on a whitewashed background and ethereal in the use of slip-trailed dotting, with a nod to the delicate and elegant embroidery of Sicilian women’s linens from the past, handcrafted pure linen trousseaus.

The slip-trailed dotting also provides a tactile sensation that makes the surface both textured and velvety, creating a pleasant and unique sensory experience.