Dark brown lamp, complete with golden yellow cone lampshade and electrical connection. Made by Terrecotte del Sole, with green seventeenth-century decoration.
Height 50 cm.
The traditional dark brown head-shaped ceramics are so famous in Sicily that they have become, over time, one of the representative symbols of the island. Traditionally, Moor's Heads adorn the balconies of homes and often appear as a decorative element in Sicilian living rooms. However, the singular shape of the Moor's Heads (or "graste" in Sicilian dialect) derives from a dark legend set in Palermo, a legend that not everyone knows.