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Height 4.5"

Vintage Pablo Zabal Blue Zoo Ceramic Horse Sculpture Signed Original Handmade Design Sgraffito Figurine Unique Pottery made in Chile

Gino Pablo Zabal practiced Zen Buddhism and it became his life philosophy. Perhaps because of the latter, the ceramic animals have “smooth and rounded, simple, sculptural, and sensual silhouettes.

Called "Blue Zoo Ceramic". The wonderfully eye-pleasing design is achieved with materials such as oxides, clays, silicas, all taken from the earth and prepared in the workshop and burned at 1100 ° degree heat in furnaces specially manufactured by Gino Paul Zabal in the workshop in order to obtain uniformity in its blue color. The decoration of the pieces, a very old technique developed by the Chinese and some Native American cultures, which the Italians call "sgrafito" that consits in drawing the piece and carve it by hand leaving the desired design, no drawings, templates or type models are used, this means that all parts decorators create unique, varied and unique design, no piece is like another. The Sgraffito consists in applying the color over the white ceramic and drawing by taking off so that the white appears.

All of his animal creations are festooned with white flowing leaf-like designs, stars, flowers and hearts on a calming blue glazed background. Each piece of the design is hand carved, so no two pieces will ever be exactly alike – a true work of art by an amazingly insightful artisan.