GR-L South Aegean
Sifnos skepastaria (lidded clay pot for revithada)
Σκεπαστάρια Σίφνου
The lidded clay pot Sifnos uses for overnight chickpea stew, thrown from heat-proof local clay and fired in wood kilns. Sifnos pottery is on the Greek National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage (2022).
Price when it opens €68.00
Being verified
Not for sale yet. The record below is public, but the supplier is not signed and documented. If we cannot prove it, we do not sell it.
Includes 24% Greek VAT.
Ships to Greece: €3.90, 1 to 3 working days. Shipping and duties
Origin record πίναξ
- Where
- Sifnos, Cyclades, South Aegean, GR-L
- How
- Workshop-made from local clay, fired in a wood-fired kiln
- Protected
- Sifnos pottery, Greek National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage (January 2022), not the UNESCO Representative List. Check the register on ayla.culture.gr (opens in a new tab)
- Maker
- [partner to be sourced]
- Fake test
- Slip-cast mass-made ware, glazes sold as food-safe with no migration test data, and no workshop mark. Source: europeana.eu (opens in a new tab)
- Cook with it
- Revithada, Sifnos chickpeas from the clay pot
Full record
- Material
- Heat-proof local Sifnos clay
- Coordinates
- Not recorded
- VAT class
- 24% standard rate
- Ships to
- Ships to Greece. Open zones: Greece, European Union.Fragile: double box. Greece and EU only at launch.
- Compliance
- Food-contact ceramic: lead and cadmium migration tests (Directive 84/500/EEC) required before listing.
- Sources
- Status
- Being verified The record is public. The sale opens once a documented supplier is signed.
- SKU
- PX-POT-SKE
Illustration of the object and its place, not a photograph of a named maker.
The address
South Aegean Νότιο Αιγαίο
The Cyclades and the Dodecanese. PINAX avoids the summer-island picture and lists three islands only for their work.
About this object
What it is
A σκεπαστάρια (skepastaria, lidded pot), the clay vessel in which Sifnos cooks revithada, a chickpea stew left in the oven overnight. Sifnos pottery was inscribed in Greece’s National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage in January 2022. That is a national list kept under the UNESCO 2003 Convention, not the UNESCO world list, and we say so plainly.
Where and how it is made
Sifnos, Cyclades, South Aegean (GR-L). The island’s potters use heat-proof local clay and wood-fired kilns, and the island’s official site counts 15 pottery workshops. It is a cooking object with a food story, not decoration.
How to use it
Soak chickpeas overnight, layer them in the pot with onion, bay and olive oil, cover with water, seal the lid and bake slowly for several hours. Our Kitchen has the full revithada recipe.
What we have not verified yet
This pot touches food, so it will not be sold until the workshop provides lead and cadmium migration tests under Directive 84/500/EEC. No workshop is signed. Maker: [partner to be sourced]. The price is an estimate. It ships double-boxed, within the EU only at launch.
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