ANTIQUE ROMANIAN TERRACOTTA BOWL A Cerri Nestore trinket box

A Cerri Nestore trinket box designed by brothers Lorenzo and Vittorio Mannelli

is a traditional drinking cup native to the Aosta Valley

This vintage folding basket is constructed of thin slats of wood tapering inwards with delicately lacquered bamboo edges and handle

a symbol of prosperity in Persian tradition

as it was once characteristically black before the Romans developed a style of their own

ANTIQUE ROMANIAN TERRACOTTA BOWL A Cerri Nestore trinket boxIn many rural parts of Romania long ago, people used terracotta vessels for a multitude of everyday uses. This antique terracotta bowl was, perhaps surprisingly, once used as a casserole dish. Used to prepare and cook meals in such as meat stews, which included rabbit or other hunted game layered between varying strata of vegetables, this dish would have been then covered either with more of a heat resistant starch like potato or with a cloth dipped