Cesar Torres Ramírez is a Mexican potter who specialized in the country Talavera pottery tradition.
His work has been featured in books such as Cerámica Y Cultura: The Story of Spanish and Mexican Mayólica of the Museum of International Folk Art in New Mexico, in the Grandes Maestros de Arte Popular Mexicano as a “grand master” by the Fomento Cultural Banamex and as one of Mexico's best artisans in a documentary on Canal Once in Mexico.
The artisan remains faithful to the original forms and decorative designs, best known for his reproduction of antique pieces such as bowls, platters, boxes, fruit bowls, candelabras and large lidded jars called tibores.
[1] He works with white and black clays from the nearby Loreto and Guadalupe hills, using the techniques he was taught by his grandfather.
After the pieces take shape, they are left to day in a windowless room for up to a month.