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Boboli Gardens
$22.00
The garden behind the Palazzo Pitti, cut into the hillside above the Arno. The Medici started it in 1550 and kept building for two hundred years: an amphitheatre with an Egyptian obelisk at its centre, a cypress avenue running down to a pond with an island in it, a grotto where water once ran over false stalactites. Box hedge clipped to the same lines since the sixteenth century. Part of it opened to the public in 1766, and on a weekday morning, before the coach tours, the gravel paths are nearly empty and Florence lies below through gaps in the trees.
Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.