trinity rings

Let your plants flourish inside this minimalist black flower pot designed by women from the Lombok Pottery Center in Indonesia. Hand crafted from ceramic, the pot features three hand engraved beige rings and pretty matte, glazed finish.

Members of Aguilar Artisan Workshop create a lovely ceramic 11-piece nativity scene. Each figurine is shaped by hand into a ringing bell, and hand-painted in a white floral motif. The faces and torsos are colourfully painted in exquisite detail. The set includes Mary, Joseph, Baby Jesus, the three wise men, an angel, a shepherd holding a lamb, a woman bringing food, a cow, and a sheep.

By Feriberto Aylas, this nativity scene from Peru will add a touch of reverence to your home decor this holiday season. Crafted of ceramic, Mary, Joseph, the three wise men, and two farm animals surround the swaddled baby Jesus. Each character is dressed in blue with hand-painted gold-tone accents.

Luis Alberto Gutiérrez pays tribute to his country's pre-Columbian heritage with this striking ceramic sculpture painted with a terracotta color created using pulverized stone. Long-tailed lizards appear to crawl up each of the handmade sculpture's three slender legs, while two rings of dots adorn the base of the vessel's long neck. The tripod's design is influenced by similar ceramic objects crafted by Costa Rica's indigenous peoples many centuries ago. "These are the vessels our ancestors used in funeral rituals, where they deposited the funeral remains together with other ceramic pieces and metals; these pieces carry with them a great deal of history and they comprise many years of antiquity," explains the artisan.

Alejandro Chavez crafts a mirror frame rooted in Andean tradition with four different vignettes. At the top, Andean shepherds serenade the Holy Family beneath the stars on the very first Christmas. To the left and right, a llama and a cow rest outdoors. Along the bottom are three bright flowers. Known as a retablo, this traditional diorama is housed in a colorful chest crafted of plywood and painted. The Peruvian artisan carefully models each figure from ceramic plaster and paints them by hand to surround a heart-shaped looking glass.