Romfilatelia, the specialized company 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. Even since ancient times, it has epitomized all the things related to the spiritual life,
Along the years, the art of pottery has developed itself in the 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 form 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 he migratory populations, maintaining nevertheless the specific features of the Romanian cultural space.
The used symbols are the solar ones, 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 millenniums and they have always been part of all the spiritual manifestations specific to the Romanian people. Pottery represents, on the whole, 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 RON 4.50 presents ceramics from Targul Neamt, Neamt.
The postage stamp with the face value of RON 5.60 represents Poiana Deleni, Iasi.
