Ceramic Holiday Ornaments with Christmas Tree Motif (Pair), "Puebla Holidays"

Winter pines become Talavera-inspired Christmas trees for holiday decor. Isabelle Collins decorates the pair with colorful lights, ribbons and scintillating cascades of tinsel, the glazes applied y hand.

"We use the same techniques and styles used in 16th-century Puebla. Classic Talavera used only six colors, all of which were natural glazes compounded at home with mineral pigments. We create our homemade paintbrushes using mule hair or horsehair from the mane or tail, according to the thickness desired for our motifs," the artisan explains.