salad bowl

Perfect for a dinner party with friends, this serving bowl from Mexico is truly beautiful. Sergio Ponce creates it in colorful Majolica ceramic, featuring colorful hand-painted floral motifs inspired by traditional Talavera work.

By Sergio Ponce, this set of Talavera ceramic cruets is designed for serving oil and vinegar with the colors and charm of Mexico. The cruets and tray are painted by hand with blue and yellow floral motifs inspired by Mexico's Hacienda art style, evoking a sunny day outdoors. Matches perfectly with the artisans salad serving bowl.

Dazzle your dinner guests with this lively salad bowl in deep blue and sunny yellow patterns. Sergio Ponce crafts ceramic tableware in his Dolores Hidalgo studio, a significant hub of Talavera production. Matches perfectly with artisans matching cruet set. Makes a wonderful house warming or host gift.

Flowers blossom with an exuberant feast of colors on a serving bowl designed in the Talavera style of the state of Puebla. The motifs are painted by hand over the ivory-color ceramic dish with a palette that includes yellow-orange, blue, and green flowers over a crisscross network of dots and crosses. Bordered by a black honeycomb, this plate with scalloped borders comes from the "Zacatlán" collection designed by Pedro Tecayehuatl.

Talavera is a distinctive art form brought to Mexico by artisans from Talavera de la Reina, Spain. The ceramic artisans of Puebla, Mexico then incorporated Chinese designs, thus creating the blue and oyster-white patterns traditionally associated with Talavera Poblana. Today there are also more "contemporary" designs that include yellow, green, orange, mauve, black and red.

National and international conventions require that a rigorous procedure be followed in the elaboration of authentic Talavera-style ceramics. Each individual piece will be slightly different, and therefore a unique work of art.