White Scallop Bread Server

Product Description

Hand-carved, utterly distinctive, created to the exacting standards established by centuries of craftsmanship in northern Italy, this server sets an elegant tone for any dinner. On the River Brenta in the northeastern Italian province of Veneto lies a small town of 5,000 souls known as Nove—“new” in Italian. The town is “new” because intensive land-reclamation projects dating to the Renaissance lowered the level of the Brenta and both made space for Nove and exposed the river’s clay banks. This clay—terra marrone, or chestnut-colored earth —turned out to be easily formed, durable when fired at high temperature, and incredibly hospitable to the finest of finishing glazes. Our Incanto White Scallop Bread Server is made of this sought-after sculptor’s clay, finished in a warm alabaster glaze that is at the same time eye-catching yet demure enough not to draw attention entirely away from the rest your well-composed table. Heat-retentive and sized at a generous 18 by 7 inches, it will accommodate a large pre-cut loaf for the duration of dinner—if your guests can keep their hands away from this lovely vessel for so long.