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Wine jug

Wine jug. Inscription: Joseph Vicens tarricer / me fesit a dia 29 de / mars del any 1749. (Joseph Vicens Tarricer / made on 29 / March 1749). Terracotta Pottery Museum. La Bisbal d’Empordà.

 

Wine jug. Inscription: Joseph Vicens tarricer / me fesit a dia 29 de / mars del any 1749. (Joseph Vicens Tarricer / made on 29 / March 1749). Terracotta Pottery Museum. La Bisbal d’Empordà.

 

The potters at La Bisbal are experts on their craft. Traditional pottery always meets certain criteria for function, balance and simplicity appropriate for rural lifestyles and needs, and their use was always linked to daily tasks: the pail was used in fountains and wells, the pot took its place by the stove, the pitcher held olives, the bucket was used during the pig slaughter and the basin carried the smell of washing.

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