Overview

• Vintage item from the 20th century

• Materials: Clay, Metal

Moroccan ceramic ashtray with metal ornate details. Great for outdoors and indoors. Top part removable to throw away cigarettes and fits back on to contain the smell. Great also for incense stick. Pottery of this type is made in Safi, Morocco, a fishing town on the Atlantic coast of Morocco. Safi is known as one of the centers for this art and utilizes red clay to create the ceramic pottery. Clay is softened by hand, and formed using a potter's wheel which is powered by foot, using age-old techniques. Pieces are dried in the sun then baked in kilns that are over 200 years old.

In excellent condition.

Measures: 8.7 cm tall, 13 cm wide, 13 cm deep

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