Cat (black)

Few animals have inspired as many beliefs as the black cat. In the countryside, he was once credited with mysterious powers, and some worried when they saw him cross their path. Elsewhere, on the contrary, he was thought to bring luck to the house that took him in. Today, he is above all one of the most elegant companions in the home.

Our black cat is seated, calm and still. At 4 cm, he slips into a medium-size Nativity scene, at the foot of a house, on a bench or near the farm. With his white and gray brothers from the same series, he lets you vary the silhouettes in the village.

Painting a black coat on terracotta takes care: the matte paint, applied by hand, must stay deep without erasing the modeling. Before that, the santon was molded in clay, assembled, slowly dried, then fired at 960 °C in our Aix-en-Provence workshop.

Founded in 1934 by Jean-Baptiste Fouque, our workshop can be visited at 65 cours Gambetta. Each santon ordered is wrapped individually, in paper and then bubble wrap, and ships within 2 to 3 business days.