Venetian Arsenal — ceramic art tile

Venetian Arsenal

Keepsake · 2 in / Glossy / Loose
$22.00
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Venetian Arsenal — ceramic art tile
  • Venetian Arsenal — ceramic art tile
  • Venetian Arsenal — front
  • Venetian Arsenal — scale
  • Venetian Arsenal — gifting
  • Venetian Arsenal — 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.
  • Venetian Arsenal — ceramic art tile
  • Venetian Arsenal — front
  • Venetian Arsenal — scale
  • Venetian Arsenal — gifting
  • Venetian Arsenal — 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.
Venetian Arsenal

Venetian Arsenal

$22.00
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A walled district in the east of Venice: forty-five hectares of brickyard, dry dock, and rope-walk that built the Republic's fleet for seven centuries. The main gate is the Porta Magna, set with two marble lions taken from Greece in 1687. One of them, the Piraeus Lion, carries runic graffiti cut by Norse mercenaries who served Byzantium in the eleventh century. The Arsenal is mostly closed now; the Biennale opens part of it each year between spring and autumn, and the Italian Navy still holds the rest. From outside the canal gates the basin reads quiet, like a courtyard that doesn't know the sea is just past the brick.

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

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