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UMBRIA
Collection
Directly from the little village
of Deruta-Italy.
If official documents do establish that Deruta pottery
and Deruta ceramics has been produced since the XIII
century, we have reasons to believe that the beginning
of such an activity has to be established at least one
century earlier.
Anyway, at the end of the XIII century, Deruta had
produced so many ceramics and pottery that it could pay
the charges imposed to the city by Perugia in vases
instead of money.
At the end of the XIV century, Deruta had for that
reason hold a position of "regional" producer of
pottery, ceramics and majolica and was, so to say,
exporting. In fact, according to evidences, as early as
in 1358 Deruta had exported more than one thousand vases
in ceramics to Assisi, homeland of Saint Francesco,
place where the need for pottery articles for the table
and ceramic souvenirs for the pilgrims come to visit the
tomb of the Saint was high. |