This stunning Egyptian Fayoum Handmade Salad Bowl With Cow has a stylised pattern of a small bird sitting on a Long Horned Cow - a Baladi - atop a palm tree - handcrafted by artisan potter Hakeem.
Hand thrown earthenware bowl from Egypt 33 cm in diameter.
This delightful Egyptian pottery is handmade in the small oasis village of Tunis in Fayoum using traditional methods and local materials such as clay from the Nile Valley in Aswan.
Long forgotten ancient enamelling techniques which had disappeared since the 13th century were reintroduced by a Swiss-born potter, Evelyne Porret and her husband, who opened the Fayhoum Pottery School & Workshop in the 1980s.
The village is now full of small artisan owned pottery workshops producing these beautiful pieces that can only really be described as individual works of art.
Each piece reveals the skills and talent of each artisan in a subtle harmony of patterns and colours, a free and naïve interpretation of the surroundings, mainly inspired by the fauna and flora of the oasis.
“loola k-kasuura ma-kaanit il-faxuura" - "were it not for breakages, there would be no potteries"
From an Egyptian rhyming proverb in Fayoum Pottery
Model Number: HK003