Boleslawiec Pottery Handmade Polish Pottery 10” Rectangular Baking Dish

Boleslawiec Pottery handmade Polish pottery 10” rectangular baking dish featuring blue polkadots and peacock feathers. Gently preowned with no chips or cracks. Never used for baking, very clean. This fine pottery and stoneware is produced in the town of Bolesławiec, in south-western Poland. The ceramics are characterized by an indigo blue polka dot pattern on a white background or vice versa. The art originated in the late Middle Ages, but it fully developed in the 19th century and has continued ever since. The scope of the stoneware ranges from teapots and jugs to plates, platters and candelabra. The pottery is collectively known as "Polish stoneware", as it became one of Poland's unofficial cultural symbols.