Ile de Re Salt Marshes — ceramic art tile

Ile de Re Salt Marshes

Keepsake · 2 in / Glossy / Loose
$22.00
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Ile de Re Salt Marshes — ceramic art tile
  • Ile de Re Salt Marshes — ceramic art tile
  • Ile de Re Salt Marshes — front
  • Ile de Re Salt Marshes — scale
  • Ile de Re Salt Marshes — gifting
  • Ile de Re Salt Marshes — grouping
  • Above the bench, in a warm oak surround.
  • Beside the kettle, propped on the counter.
  • Above the linens, in a slim black surround.
  • On the nightstand, on a light oak stand.
  • On a picture ledge, where the light comes in.
  • Ile de Re Salt Marshes — ceramic art tile
  • Ile de Re Salt Marshes — front
  • Ile de Re Salt Marshes — scale
  • Ile de Re Salt Marshes — gifting
  • Ile de Re Salt Marshes — grouping
  • Above the bench, in a warm oak surround.
  • Beside the kettle, propped on the counter.
  • Above the linens, in a slim black surround.
  • On the nightstand, on a light oak stand.
  • On a picture ledge, where the light comes in.
Ile de Re Salt Marshes

Ile de Re Salt Marshes

$22.00
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A grid of shallow pans on the northern half of the island, worked since at least the seventh century and expanded by Cistercian monks from the twelfth, then by the families who hold the trade now. About a hundred sauniers still rake by hand. The squares fill and dry through summer, and by August the surface holds white crusts that get skimmed off before they sink. This is fleur de sel, the salt that only forms on hot, still days. From above the marshes read as a patchwork of pink, white and brown rectangles. From the path through them the horizon is mostly sky.

Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.

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