According to an ancient Sicilian folk tradition that goes down to the present day, the ceramic pine cone is an ornament that cannot be missing in a house as a wish for health, good luck and prosperity, for this reason it is customary to decorate the house entrance with Sicilian artistic ceramic pine cones.
We also find the Sicilian pine cone on the pillars of the entrance gates of ancient villas, adorn balconies and terraces, in noble gardens, in monumental cemeteries, on the facades of churches and convents, artistic pine cones have also been depicted in the thrones of kings and popes as materialization of the soul, as a symbol of union between earthly and divine.
In the Sicilian peasant tradition it was used to adorn the bedroom of the newlyweds with pine cones, as a symbol of fertility, to wish the formation of a large family.
The Pine cone is made by Gioia Sulas in Stoneware and fired at 1260c in our kiln at Claystation in London Fields.
