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Corona Family

In the town of “San Pablo del Monte”, in the state of Tlaxcala, the art of working the talavera was not known. It was on 1981 that a small shop was born in charge of the great ceramist “Don Cayetano Corona Gaspariano” that had the knowledge and necessary dedication to work pieces of Talavera so beautiful and authentic as those that knew each other in the old and traditional shops of this ceramic.


When he decided to put this shop in “San Pablo del Monte” it was with the help of their children. At the beginning it was a small familiar shop of Talavera, but with their perseverance and great spirit it becoming into “Fábrica de Talavera La Corona S.A. de C.V.” which has a great recognition for the quality and designs.

Don Cayetano Corona Gaspariano, within his children have tried to have the same technique of Talavera, because they want to conserve effective the handmade tradition.

For the elaboration of this craft they are used two moods the black one and the loamy one, and the rosy one, which are bought in the city of Puebla in big quantities.

The colours of their pieces are a hundred percent of mineral origin, the same one manufactures them with the recipes of the painting of the authentic talavera, In fact their handmade of sewn mud, or of plaster, and paintbrushes of different width, preferably Japanese paintbrushes that are special to decorate and also uses wooden lathes of two circles that it manages with the feet, gas ovens and regulator of temperature