This ceramic sculpture has a nose, mouth and ears in relief engraved vertically. The facial finish is wrinkled and the tears are shiny green. In the Sicilian tradition the Prefica was a woman who was paid for taking part and crying in the funeral ceremonies.
Filomena, Carmelina, Totuccio and Salvo are some of the pieces created form the fantasies of Patrizia Italiano, a Sicilian ceramicist based between Pa ...