Federico Fellini’s Amarcord contains a character who appears briefly and is never forgotten: the Tabaccaia, the tobacconist, whose body is an event, whose presence in the film has the quality of a natural force rather than a person.
This carafe is her silhouette in ceramic. The curves are not metaphorical — they are structural. The form does not reference her. It embodies her: generous, commanding, made to be handled.
Fired in the same proprietary ceramic body as the rest of the series.