02 - Bottega Molaroni

Molaroni ceramics workshop has been in existence since 1880. Even today, still in its historic location, it is called Ceramiche Artistiche Molaroni.

It can be said that everyone has passed through the Molaroni studio, and then each has gone their own way: painters who wanted to experiment with the use of ceramics, artists who chose it as an exclusive means of expression, personalities who then established themselves in other studios or opened their own.

Vases, amphorae, centerpieces, plates, lamps, jewelry boxes, and studio objects have welcomed different hands and personalities, in which styles have expressed themselves freely, contributing to the creation of an increasingly broad production. But the production remains so recognizable throughout the world for the choice to reproduce ancient styles: a characteristic of the late nineteenth-century eclecticism that characterizes Pesaro, like Urbania, and which was much more than the choice of a copy: it was rather the belonging to a taste that is then also found in some houses fortunately still visible today in the city.

From this laboratory came objects that today reach the whole world, but above all that immediately contributed to creating a passion and an identity taste of the territory. We can find in all the homes of the Pesaro people objects purchased or received as gifts on the most important occasions and, very importantly, among all social classes.

Rosa di Pesaro  for example, is present in many homes. It is an eighteenth-century floral decoration typical of Pesaro majolica. Bouquets of flowers and small colored insects arranged around roses with the characteristic pink color are represented on white enamel. The Municipality of Pesaro has adopted this decoration as a symbol of the city.

Another very widespread object is the Raffaellesco Blu, which is the exclusive decoration invented by Vincenzo Molaroni. It is made up of floral motifs mixed with figures of sirens and cherubs, all in gray-green monochrome on a blue background.

And again the Historiato, a Renaissance decoration in which famous mythological or biblical scenes are represented.

The Civic Museum collects important testimonies of this production, which today makes Pesaro ceramics known throughout the world.