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Ceramics of Italy

89 stores · curated ORBIS register

Italian ceramics carry regional signatures you can read at arm's length, Caltagirone against Vietri. Sorrento è works the Caltagirone tradition by hand since 1970. Ceramica Pinto hand-decorates majolica tiles and Vietri-style ceramics for floors and walls. Ceramiche Cosmolena paints tableware from a family workshop founded over sixty years ago. The foot of a piece tells you who threw it, which is reason enough to turn it over.

Thun

Bolzano / South Tyrol / Online

Ceramics house founded in Bolzano in 1950 by Countess Lene Thun, who modeled the first Angel of Bozen figurine now emblematic of South Tyrol; still headquartered in Bolzano as THUN S.p.A.

Best for Ceramic angels and warm-hearted gifts.

⚒ Ceramicists & Glassmakers · Born in Bolzano / ItalyORBIS register

San Gregorio di Catania

Giuseppe Sorgi's workshop in San Gregorio di Catania has hand-painted artistic ceramics and shaped terracotta for over fifty years, extending to Etna lava-stone work, tiled countertops and garden pieces. Alongside decorative wares it takes on custom commissions and restoration in traditional Sicilian technique.

Best for Hand-painted ceramics and terracotta

⚒ Ceramicists & Glassmakers · San Gregorio di Catania / SicilyORBIS register

Florence / Italy

Founded in 2012, Campucc10 is a Florence cultural association and gallery bringing sculpture, ceramics, graphics, illustration, goldsmithing and design together in the Oltrarno.

Best for Sculpture, ceramics, illustration and goldsmithing by working artists

⚒ Craft & AteliersORBIS register

Lucca / Italy

Vissi d'arte is a ceramics shop in the centre of Lucca offering finely hand-painted plates, tiles, jugs and decorations made in Lucca. It sells online with shipping and runs ceramic-painting courses at its studio.

Best for Ceramics, hand-painted ceramics, pottery

Milan / Online

Milan design studio founded 2010 by Domenico Orefice; its 'Man de Milan' line ('Hands of Milan') pairs objects and furniture with Lombard artisans - ceramics, marble, textile and furnace workshops.

Best for Collectible design

⚒ Home & Design · ItalyORBIS register

San Gregorio Armeno, Naples

Arte in Movimento De Maria, on Via San Gregorio Armeno in Naples, makes nativity and Easter figures (pastori natalizi e pasquali) and custom presepi using cork, terracotta, ceramics, and fabric clothing for the figures. Pieces can include miniature food, moving mechanisms, and theatrical lighting and water effects.

Best for Custom neapolitan nativity scenes

Orvieto / Italy

Ceramiche Giacomini is a three-generation family pottery on Piazza Duomo in Orvieto, hand-painting artistic majolica plates, vases and accessories in traditional Umbrian designs. Pieces are sold in the shop and through its online store with insured worldwide shipping.

Best for Ceramics, majolica, artistic pottery, plates, vases

Orvieto / Italy

ShopArt is an Orvieto craft shop offering ceramics, frescoes, canvases and painted panels made by increasingly rare local master artisans. It sells these handmade Umbrian pieces to visitors in the historic center, with purchases arranged directly through the shop.

Best for Ceramics, frescoes, art reproductions, handicrafts, paintings

⚒ Craft & AteliersORBIS register

Ostuni / Italy / Online

Carella Ceramiche is a family workshop in Ostuni's white city hand-throwing and painting Apulian ceramics, from pumi and pine cones to plates, jars and pierced lamps. It ships worldwide through a direct online store for direct online orders and also welcomes buyers to its laboratory and shop.

Best for Ceramics, handmade pottery, Puglia crafts, pumi, wedding favours

Ceramiche D'Alò

Heritage House

Ostuni / Italy

Ceramiche D'Alo has sold handmade Apulian ceramics in Ostuni since 1870, offering pumi, lamps, pots, plates, whistles and nativity pieces from selected regional artisans. Its shop on Corso Cavour is open daily and remote purchases are arranged directly with the family while its e-commerce is being built.

Best for Ceramics, terracotta, Puglia crafts, pumi, tableware

Ostuni / Italy

Fratelli Barletta is a family olive farm near Ostuni pressing extra virgin olive oil the same day the olives are picked, from 22 hectares and eight cultivars. Its website is a working shop with cart selling bottles, tins, bag-in-box and ceramic cruets with shipping across Europe.

Best for Cart selling bottles, tins, bag-in-box and ceramic cruets with shipping across Europe

⚒ Gourmet & PantryORBIS register

Ostuni / Italy

Galleria Valencienne is a concept store and gallery set in a historic Ostuni palazzo, blending French elegance with Puglia's colours across fashion, jewellery, art and handmade tableware. It sells worldwide through its online shop for direct orders and welcomes visitors to its vaulted rooms on Corso Vittorio Emanuele II.

Best for Fashion, concept store, jewellery, art, ceramics, tableware

⚒ Concept StoresORBIS register

Palermo / Sicily / Online

The workshop sells hand-painted tiles alongside tableware and decorative ceramics, letting shoppers build murals or borders from individual pieces. Its current contact page places the business in Catania, not Palermo.

Best for Joyous hand-painted Sicilian tableware.

⚒ Ceramicists & Glassmakers · Hand-made in SicilyORBIS register

Palermo, Sicily, Italy

Handmade coffa bags woven from dwarf-palm fiber in a family workshop in Palermo, Sicily, decorated with painted ceramics, pompoms and fringe in the traditional style of Sicilian farm and market totes; each bag takes about two days to make.

Best for Bags, Sicilian craft

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · ItalyORBIS register

Italy

This Via Roma storefront sells ceramic sea-turtle bracelets, hand-painted fish figurines and natural sea sponges pulled from the island's own sponge-diving tradition, alongside Lampedusa-branded t-shirts and nautical accessories. It runs a street counter and an online shop side by side, both stocked from the same local-craft inventory.

Best for Ceramic turtle bracelets, natural sea sponges and marine souvenirs

⚒ Craft & Ateliers · Lampedusa / SicilyORBIS register

Siena / Italy

Arcaico Ceramic Siena has hand-painted lead-free ceramics from a shop on Via di Città, just steps from the Piazza del Campo and Siena's Duomo, since 1992. Run by Massimo and Gianni Bracciali, the studio takes custom commissions and ships finished pieces worldwide.

Best for Ceramics & Pottery, Handmade Majolica, Custom Ceramics

Via dei Fusari 21, 53100 Siena (SI), Italy / Siena / Italy

Walter Staccioli opened the ceramics workshop; daughter Sonia, an Istituto d'Arte graduate, now paints Sienese-tradition pieces with her sister Giada.

Best for Hand-painted ceramics rooted in Sienese decorative traditions.

⚒ Concept Stores · ItalyORBIS register

Siena / Italy

Roscoart has sold hand-painted Sienese and Deruta majolica from its shop in Siena's historic center for over thirty years, working with family ceramists to produce traditional and contemporary designs. The shop takes custom orders and ships worldwide alongside its in-person storefront.

Best for Ceramics & Pottery, Majolica, Hand-Painted Ceramics

Taormina / Italy

Aute Taormina sells Sicilian ceramics and jewelry from its shop in Taormina's Piazza San Domenico, open daily from 10am to 7pm, featuring hand-painted Moor's Head sculptures, sea urchin ceramics, and pieces by artists like Stefania Boemi. The shop also ships its ceramics internationally through its online store, with insured shipping on every order.

Best for Ceramics and jewelry boutique

Nove

Botteganove makes ceramic tiles and surfaces from refined clays and glazes on Via Molini in Nove, Vicenza, where Christian Pegoraro took over the family business in 2013. The workshop collaborates with designers including Chiara Andreatti, Cristina Celestino and the Studiopepe duo.

Best for Designer ceramic tiles and surfaces

Via Madonna degli Angeli 7, Vietri sul Mare (Salerno province)

Solimene hand-makes and hand-decorates Vietri tableware, tiles, decorative objects and furnishings in the traditional Mediterranean style. Its building in Vietri sul Mare carries a façade designed by architect Paolo Soleri.

Best for Iconic hand-painted Vietri ceramics

⚒ Ceramicists & Glassmakers · Vietri sul Mare / ItalyORBIS register

Piano Di Sorrento / Italy

Ceramica Artistica Sorrentina has hand-painted ceramics in its Piano di Sorrento workshop since founder Antonino Puglia opened it in 1982, producing plates, dinnerware sets, and decorative pieces in traditional Sorrento styles. The workshop sells directly from its studio and ships its handmade ceramics through a full online store.

Best for Ceramics, Pottery, Home Decor, Handmade

Chianti / Tuscany / Online

Antonella Ciapetti's shop and laboratory on Piazza Giacomo Matteotti in Greve in Chianti sells hand-made Tuscan ceramics in two registers. One follows the Montelupo school and the roosters and olive trees of Chianti. The other pairs traditional forms with bright glazes in the red of the earth and the blue of the sky. Work by Bruno Gambone and Marcello Fantoni sits alongside the house collections.

Best for Modern Tuscan ceramics in ancient palettes.

⚒ Ceramicists & Glassmakers · Hand-made in TuscanyORBIS register

Vietri sul Mare

Ceramica Margherita has made handmade ceramics since 1996 on Corso Umberto I in Vietri sul Mare, working in a distinctive Sabbiato technique with its own glaze. Founder Margherita D'Amato and co-founder Giovanni Stabile produce mythological figures, animals, masks, religious subjects and lighting fixtures.

Best for Handmade vietri ceramics

Vietri Sul Mare / Italy

Ceramica Pinto hand-decorates majolica tiles and Vietri-style ceramics from its workshop on Corso Umberto in Vietri Sul Mare, producing everything from floor tiles to hanging plates and table settings in the town's traditional patterns. The company ships internationally within days and sells its full catalog through its online shop.

Best for Hand-decorated majolica tiles and Vietri-style ceramics — floor tiles, hanging plates

Vietri sul Mare (Salerno province)

Ceramica Vietrese produces hand-decorated Vietri pottery, tiles and decorative objects in the traditional local manner. The workshop carries the Eccellenza Artigianale Made in Italy designation.

Best for Traditional Vietri artisan pottery

⚒ Ceramicists & Glassmakers · Vietri sul Mare / ItalyORBIS register

Campania

Started more than sixty years ago by Cosmo di Palma and Maddalena Donatantonio in Ravello, Ceramiche Cosmolena hand-paints Amalfi Coast ceramic tableware, from tea cups and sugar bowls to decorative platters, now run by the founders' descendants.

Best for Hand-painted tableware and ceramics from a family workshop founded over sixty years

⚒ Ceramicists & Glassmakers · Ravello / Costiera AmalfitanaORBIS register

Campania

This Ravello workshop makes its ceramics entirely by hand in both form and decoration, so each piece varies slightly. The range runs from coasters priced from about 12.50 EUR up to premium lava-stone tables, plus tableware, decorative plates and home decor.

Best for Hand-painted Amalfi Coast ceramics and lava-stone tables

⚒ Ceramicists & Glassmakers · Ravello / Costiera AmalfitanaORBIS register

Sciacca

Ceramiche Artigianali dei F.lli Dimino makes ceramic plates, albarelli jars, boccioni, chandeliers, clocks framed in iron and wood, centerpieces, biscuit jars and coffee sets from its shop on Piazza Saverio Friscia in Sciacca. The Dimino brothers continue work started by their father.

Best for Sciacca ceramic tableware and homeware

San Giovanni, Portoferraio, Isola d'Elba, Italy

Founded in 1974 on the road toward Porto Azzurro, this family workshop throws and hand-decorates ceramics and heat-resistant terracotta for garden and home. Wheel-thrown pots, tableware and decorative pieces are made on-site and sold from the adjoining shop.

Best for Wheel-thrown ceramics and terracotta

⚒ Ceramicists & Glassmakers · Portoferraio / Isola d'Elba / ItalyORBIS register

Nove/Bassano del Grappa

Ceramiche Elios has made hand-crafted artistic ceramics for the table since 1958 from its base between Nove and Bassano del Grappa in the Veneto. The firm, registered as Ceramiche Elios s.n.c., sells only to wholesalers, importers, distributors and other businesses, not directly to private customers.

Best for Hand-crafted table ceramics

Albisola/Savona

Francesco Guarino opened his workshop in 1990, producing hand-painted maiolica pieces including vases, bomboniere, decorative tiles, and tableware. Styles draw on the historic Antico Savona designs originated by Giovanni Antonio Guidobono, alongside Calligrafico, Levantino, and Floreale patterns.

Best for Hand-painted maiolica vases and tableware

Faenza

Ceramiche Lega has made ceramics in Faenza since 1950, when founder Leandro Lega began the workshop, later joined by his daughter Carla in 1975 and now run with her daughter Martina. Pieces are hand-modeled from thin clay sheets using cartoccio and colombino techniques and finished with metallic and iridescent reduction-luster glazes.

Best for Hand-modeled luster-glazed ceramics

Albissola

Ceramiche Mazzotti has produced maiolica since 1903, hand-shaping grey clay paste and decorating pieces in the Bianco e Blu style with a free-hand brush. The family workshop is linked to futurist ceramicist Tullio d'Albisola, and its Casa Mazzotti building was designed by architect Nicolaj Diulgheroff in 1932.

Best for Hand-painted bianco e blu maiolica

Grottaglie / Puglia / Online

Ceramiche Nicola Fasano produces hand-painted tableware, vases and decorative ceramics in Grottaglie’s pottery district. Repeated motifs and colourways allow shoppers to build a service gradually rather than buying a fixed set.

Best for Grottaglie plates and the classic galletto.

⚒ Ceramicists & Glassmakers · Made in GrottaglieORBIS register

Sciacca

Schittone Ceramiche was opened in Sciacca in 2002 by brothers Vincenzo and Giuseppe Schittone, who trained at the town's Istituto Statale d'Arte G. Bonachia. The workshop hand-paints ceramic Moor's heads, modern vases, fruit baskets, animal figures and statuettes.

Best for Hand-painted sicilian ceramics

Montelupo Fiorentino

Ceramiche Tombelli makes artistic ceramics from Via dell'Artigianato 22/24 in Montelupo Fiorentino, including interior art pieces (ceramica d'arte per interni) and tableware (ceramiche tavola). The workshop sells through its own shop and an outlet section for discounted pieces.

Best for Montelupo art ceramics and tableware

Montelupo Fiorentino

Terrecotte Corradini e Rinaldi has worked in Montelupo since 1960, producing ceramic and terracotta vases, urns (orci), planters, statues, busts, and animal figures. The workshop is based at Via Tosco Romagnola Nord 12 in the Camaioni district.

Best for Montelupo terracotta vases and statues

Eco Capri

Hidden Gem

Via Vittorio Emanuele, Capri town

Born from the Aiello family behind the historic Grazia e Graziella boutique, Eco Capri turns island light into printed silk scarves, ceramics and accessories. Its Capri town shop is known for cheerful lemon- and majolica-tile motifs made in Italy.

Best for Printed silk scarves and island accessories

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Siracusa / Italy

Fish House Art has exhibited and sold fish-shaped sculpture, ceramics, and jewelry from established and emerging artists at its Siracusa gallery since 2002. The gallery's workshop also creates and restores fish-themed pieces on site, with a dedicated "how to buy" guide for collectors.

Best for Art & Ceramics, Fish-Themed Art, Gallery

Ginori 1735

Heritage House

Sesto Fiorentino / Tuscany / Online

The Doccia porcelain manufactory — Tuscan porcelain art since 1735, from Oriente Italiano to Luke Edward Hall. The Florence shop has occupied the ground floor of Palazzo Ginori on Via dei Rondinelli since 1802.

Best for Oriente Italiano porcelain and collector tableware.

⚒ Ceramicists & Glassmakers · Made in Sesto Fiorentino / TuscanyORBIS register

Gubbio

Gubbio Ceramica hand-makes ceramic flowers (fiori realizzati artigianalmente in ceramica) and decorative objects including ceramic hot air balloons, using Italian raw materials. The workshop, based in Gubbio, is represented by Paolo, who describes the pieces as unique handmade objects (oggetti unici in ceramica fatti a mano).

Best for Hand-made ceramic flowers

Selargius (metropolitan Cagliari)

Founded in Cagliari in 2003 and now working from Selargius, this family studio hand-makes tableware, lamps, clocks and bomboniere in Sardinian artistic style. Every piece is formed and decorated by hand, including custom orders for local restaurants and hotels.

Best for Handmade Sardinian artistic ceramics

⚒ Ceramicists & Glassmakers · Sardinia / ItalyORBIS register

Alberobello, Puglia

This Alberobello shop gathers Apulian food specialities and handcrafted pottery under one roof, from regional olive-oil goods to local ceramics. Everything traces back to Puglia's kitchens and kilns.

Best for Apulian typical products and ceramics

⚒ Gourmet & Pantry · Puglia / ItalyORBIS register

Praiano / Italy

La Bacheca hand-throws and hand-paints Amalfi Coast ceramics in its Praiano workshop on Via Capriglione, selling table settings, wall plates, and decorative jugs both in-store and through its online shop. Every piece is made individually, so glaze and form vary slightly from one to the next.

Best for Hand-painted Amalfi Coast ceramics, table settings, wall plates, and jugs

Grottaglie / Puglia / Online

Lacapasa is a handmade-ceramics shop in Grottaglie, Puglia (Via Talete 18), specializing in the pumo — the region's traditional ceramic good-luck ornament — alongside other Grottaglie pottery forms.

Best for Lucky pumi and Puglian table ceramics.

⚒ Ceramicists & Glassmakers · Made in GrottaglieORBIS register

Manarola

This Manarola shop on Via Birolli gathers Cinque Terre products under one roof, from local wine and Italian ceramics to handmade jewelry, prints, clothing and regional foods. Run by Il Porticciolo SRL and open every day, it ships worldwide and takes special orders by request.

Best for Local-wine, handmade-ceramics, jewelry, art-prints, souvenirs, local-food

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Albissola Marina

Manifattura Giuseppe Mazzotti 1903 was founded in 1903 by Giuseppe Bausin Mazzotti and continues entirely manual ceramic processing in the Bianco e Blu and Antico Savona styles. Leadership passed through Torido, Giuseppe Bepi, and Tullio Mazzotti, and the Fondazione Giuseppe Mazzotti 1903 was established in 2002.

Best for Hand-crafted bianco e blu ceramics since 1903

Sorrento / Italy

Sapori e Colori is a family-run limoncello factory in Sorrento's historic center, producing handcrafted limoncello, cream liqueurs, olive oil, and Vietri-style ceramics since 2005. The shop ships to over 100 countries and sells directly from its Via San Cesareo storefront and webshop.

Best for Handcrafted limoncello, cream liqueurs, olive oil

⚒ Gourmet & PantryORBIS register

Positano / Italy

Sapori e Profumi di Positano has run the self-styled 'Lemon Shop' from Via dei Mulini in Positano since 1986, turning its own untreated lemons into limoncello, candies, soaps and home fragrances. The shop also sells hand-painted ceramics and San Leucio silk bags, both in-store and online.

Best for Food, Home Fragrance, Ceramics

Caltagirone centro storico

Sil.Va Ceramica works from Palazzo Crescimanno Gravina on Piazza Umberto I in Caltagirone, producing figurines, tableware, and tiles finished with smaltatura glazing through a first and second firing. The workshop, associated with Valeria La Spina, Emanuela Maniglia, and Maestro Silvestro Saporito, has been visited by art critic Vittorio Sgarbi.

Best for Hand-glazed figurines and tiles

Sorrento / Italy

Sorrento e sells handcrafted Italian ceramics -- trays, dishes, and decor in geometric, floral, and coastal motifs -- made by artisans working in the Caltagirone tradition since 1970. The shop operates two physical locations in Sorrento alongside an international online store.

Best for Handcrafted ceramics in the Caltagirone tradition since 1970

Vulcanika

Hidden Gem

Via Garibaldi

This shop on Via Garibaldi carries hand-painted Caltagirone ceramics, Etna lava-stone objects, terracotta and Moor's-head vases drawn from Sicilian craft traditions. Its range extends to handcrafted jewelry, bags and souvenirs sold in store and shipped online.

Best for Caltagirone ceramics and lava-stone craft

⚒ Ceramicists & Glassmakers · SicilyORBIS register

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