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About Cerámica de Fajalauza
Fajalauza is Granada's most distinctive ceramic tradition, named after the historic Fajalauza Gate in the Albayzín district where its workshops first gathered. The first written record dates to 1517, when a potter filed a legal complaint in the years following the Christian reconquest of Granada — a moment that shaped the tradition itself, as Moorish and Spanish artistic influences fused into something new. The characteristic palette — copper green and cobalt blue on a cream tin-glazed ground — and the recurring motifs of pomegranates, palm fronds, and stylized foliage have remained the visual language of Fajalauza for five centuries. These bases are made in Bailén, in the province of Jaén, in a direct continuation of that Granada style: hand-thrown earthenware decorated freehand in the Fajalauza manner, a living craft produced today much as it has been since the sixteenth century.
