Rare Bavent ceramic roof tile cat, c1900
Dimensions: 16.5 inches x 8.75 inches x 22 inches.--------------------------------------------------------------------------This heritage pottery has a specialty; finials, the curved tiles that stop rain getting into the pointy bit of a roof, and they are unlike anything we have seen before.A pottery on this site has made durable tiles from a rich local seam of clay since the middle ages. Somewhere along the way sparks of creativity were encouraged in the potters, and their individuality was treasured by local house builders and owners.A little bit of pottery style added to a roof finial could announce a building owner’s business, call on stories from the bible for deliverance, make a political point, or simply look quite pretty. And they are still doing it.Look up at the more ornate villas of Houlgate, Deauville, all along the Calvados coast, and you will see roofs topped with fanciful pottery twiddles. They do appear on homes across the world but many are still joyously close to the pottery that made them.

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