Pallino is a one-of-a-kind stoneware sculpture representing Astorre, an imaginary bird that is half-goshawk, half-heron. The material is treated with engobe, a coating of slip applied to the clay for decoration, before glazing.
There is a story Giovanni Cimatti likes to tell about his vocation as a ceramicist. In 1948, while his mother was pregnant with him, she worked for a ...