Romfilatelia, the company specialized in issuing and trading Romanian postage stamps, is releasing the postage stamp issue ROMANIAN POTTERY – Wedding Pots (I).
Among the Romanian traditional ceramics, wedding pots have a special place. They illustrate the technical inventiveness and the imagination of potters, characterized by the originality of the forms, proportions, decorations and chromatics.
Wedding pots were made especially during the autumn, when most of the weddings took place. The grooms ordered the pots; usually, four or five at the same time. There were offered to the godparents and to the parents of the bride, but they could also be kept in the house. Today, they are decorative items of the modern interior, or kept in various exhibit forms, on the table, hanging on the wall or by the beam.
The simplicity of the form, the richness of the motifs, the harmonious distribution of the drawings and the highlight of certain portions through ornament and colour are a characteristic of Romanian peasant art. The composition seems to be perfect due to its symmetrical, alternating and rhythmical distribution of the ornamental motif, but also of the chromatic one.
Pots illustrate features of the peasant creation, such as originality, continuity ethnic specificity, functionality and last but not least, the artistic virtues. Traditions and interferences of all kinds led to the spreading of the handicraft and to the typological, temporal and territorial diversification, within the specific style of the Romanian popular art. The wedding pots appearing on the postage stamps of the issue are representative for the pottery of the counties of Arges (Poienita), Olt (Oboga and Romana). The ceramic pots are part of the centenarian collection of the Romanian Peasant Museum.
The postage stamp with face value of Lei 0.60 represents pottery from Poienita-Arges.
The postage stamps with the face values of Lei 0.70 and Lei 0.80 illustrate pottery from Oboga-Olt.
The postage stamp with the face value of Lei 1.60 represents pottery from Romana-Olt.
The issue is completed by 4 maxicards.
