Candle holder baroque
Candle holder baroque
Ceramica Bevilacqua
The Sicilian Baroque - the scrollwork, the acanthus, the cherubs that cover the facades of churches from Noto to Palermo - is one of the great decorative languages of Europe. For centuries it has been the work of sculptors whose trade is decorating sacred spaces.
Bevilacqua's Barocco range begins there. Every design is first hand-carved in wood by a Sicilian master who makes ornaments for churches. Moulds are taken from the originals, and the pieces are cast in clay and finished in a single saturated glaze — vintage green, deep blue, bone white. A sacred hand, translated into clay.
Hand-finished by the Bevilacqua family in Campofranco, central Sicily.
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about the workshop
Ceramica Bevilacqua is a family workshop in Campofranco, a small village in central Sicily well off the tourist path. The workshop is run by two brothers, Antonio and Giuseppe, their wives Mariangela and Lorena, and Antonio's daughter Chiara. There are no other employees. Every piece that leaves Campofranco has been shaped, glazed, and painted by one of five pairs of hands.
Sicilian maiolica is a tradition more than a thousand years old, carried to the island by ninth-century Arab potters and shaped since by Norman, Spanish, and Italian hands. Bevilacqua's ceramics are painted directly onto raw tin glaze with mineral oxides - a process that allows no correction. What the painter paints is what the fire fixes forever. The Leopard imports their work directly from the workshop; it is available nowhere else in Australia.
