Romfilatelia, the company specialized in issuing and trading Romanian postage stamps, releases a series of definitive stamps representing Romanian pots.
The art of pottery is one of the oldest in the world. Ever since ancient times, it has epitomized all the things related to the spiritual life. Along the years, the art of pottery was developed within societies which had a sacred image of the world and has been transmitted from generation to generation for thousands of years.
In Romania, the art of pottery dates from around the 6th millennium B.C. Through their shape, size, decorative designs and chromatics, the pitchers express the potter’s technical resourcefulness and their inspiration, as they have adjusted the Greek-Roman influences and, later on, those of the migratory populations, maintaining nevertheless the specific features of the Romanian cultural space.
The symbols used are solar, such as the head of the ram or the winged horse, while the snake is portrayed as a spiral, this shape being the symbol of cosmic positive evolution. The pots have accompanied the human communities along the millennia and they have always been part of the spiritual manifestations specific to the Romanian people.
On a whole, pottery represents, through its shapes and symbols, an opening and a spiritual invitation towards the mystical spheres of the ancestral culture.
The postage stamp with the face value of ROL 7,000 illustrates two wedding pitchers from the Romana – Olt region.
The postage stamp with the face value of ROL 8,000 reproduces one pot from the Vadul Crisului – Bihor region.
The postage stamp with the face value of ROL 10,000 reproduces a black-jack from Tara Barsei – Brasov region.
The splendid pots which appear on the postage stamps are part of the collection belonging to the Romanian Peasant Museum.
