Grape pickers 9 cm

In the villages of the South, the grape harvest was long a collective event: families, neighbors and seasonal workers came together in the rows of vines for the picking. Provence has grown vines for about 2,600 years, and while its wines gained their reputation mainly from the 1960s on, the grape picker's gesture has hardly changed.

Our collection pays tribute to this work with this couple of grape pickers, recent models from the workshop. They complement the farming trades already present in the Provençal Nativity scene: shepherds, plowmen, millers.

In 9 cm, the family size of our Nativity scenes, the costumes and faces are clearly visible. Our painters apply the colors detail by detail, going over each motif several times. Before that, each santon was molded in very fine regional clay, finished by hand, then slowly fired for nine hours up to 960 °C. The kiln then stays closed for 48 hours for gradual cooling.

Our family has been making santons in Aix-en-Provence since 1934. Ordered online, your grape pickers are wrapped one by one in paper and then bubble wrap, and shipped within 2 to 3 business days.