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Handcrafted from ceramic and painted by hand with colorful floral motifs, two decorative bells adorn the tree with the style of Talavera handicrafts. Mexican artisan Juana Ponce designs this festive addition to your holiday decor.

Multicolored floral motifs adorn the surface of this wall cross, featuring a beautiful yellow flower in the center. Mexico's Pedro Alba crafts the cross from ceramic, painting the motifs by hand with inspiration from his Christian roots.

Blue rhombus motifs adorn the surface of this elegant wall cross, featuring a four-petaled flower in the center. Mexican artisan Pedro Alba crafts the ceramic wall cross featuring a hand-painted design resembling the legendary talavera tradition.

Artisan Juana Ponce of Mexico lets you wear a glimpse of Heaven with these dangle earrings, made in honor of the Talavera art style. These ceramic dangle earrings assume an elegant drop shape, accented with hand-painted blue blooms and sterling silver hooks.

Delicate crosshatch patterns become brown floral tendrils in the style of ancient China, first used in Puebla in the mid-15th century. They adorn a curvaceous decorative jar and lid in subtle beige. Isabelle Collins works in the style and technique of classic Talavera ceramics to create a colorful ginger jar. This lidded vase is known in Mexico as a tibor; it was brought to Mexico from the Orient by way of the Philippines in the late 1500s.

"We use the same techniques and styles used in 16th-century Puebla. Classic Talavera used only six colors, all of which were natural glazes compounded at home with mineral pigments. We create our homemade paintbrushes using mule hair or horsehair from the mane or tail, according to the thickness desired for our motifs," the artisan confides.