Popular Basque Pottery
Popular Basque Pottery includes a large number of articles used for different purposes. What were once functional items are now in great demand by collectors for their ethnographic, cultural and decorative value.
Pottery production in the Basque Country was predominantly simple and staid. More complicated and decorative articles were used for religious purposes and in stately homes.
The use of pottery utensils goes back as far as the first human settlements. The development of farming and the use of tame animals gave rise to the urban settlements where the first technical breakthroughs were recorded, one of which was pottery. This occurred in the near east 7,000 years BC and arrived in the Basque Country towards the end of the 4 th millennium BC.
