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Portovenere
$22.00
The town at the western tip of the Gulf of La Spezia, where the Ligurian coast runs out of land. A row of tall, narrow houses stands shoulder to shoulder along the water, and past them the black-and-white church of San Pietro holds the last of the rock above the open sea. The Romans kept a temple to Venus on that point, and the village still carries her name. Byron swam out from the grotto below it. Late in the afternoon the stone goes gold and the boats come in, and there is little to do but watch the light leave the water.
Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.