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La prefica

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.
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Patrizia Italiano
Palermo, Italy
Filomena, Carmelina, Totuccio and Salvo are some of the pieces created form the fantasies of Patrizia Italiano, a Sicilian ceramicist based between Pa ...
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