Pottery workshop, HOREZU, Vâlcea, 19th century
It comes from the town of Horezu, recognized as an old and famous ceramic center attested from the Brancovian period. Such a workshop was usually located in the household, constituting an annex.
The construction, made on a low stone foundation, has a skeleton made of fir wood mounted on oak soles and walls. The roof is in two slopes, wrapped with fir shingle, on the mane being the opening of a furnace in two "waters".
Inside we meet the instrumentation specific to the processing, decoration and burning of clay vessels: the potter's wheel, the potal, the horn, the brush, the truncated oven in which the vessels were burning. Along the walls, on superimposed shelves, numerous types of vessels are exposed, located in various stages.
