Painted color comes alive against Terra Bianca, a white earthenware clay Italian workshops keep for designs that have to carry the piece. That is what makes the hand painted fish in this bowl read as clearly as it does, each one given an intricate design of its own by an artisan working in the Tuscan tradition of painting onto white earthenware. The Elba's Fish Serving Bowl holds sixteen ounces, which is the right size for olives, a dipping sauce, a side of caponata or berries at the end of a meal. The collection takes its name from an island off the Tuscan coast and keeps the unhurried feeling of the seaside in it. Dishwasher and microwave safe, it stays out on the counter through the summer, refilled whenever people turn up, rather than going back in the cabinet.
