PLACE REPRESENTED: Opatija , Croatia.

ITEM: Ornament

NOTES: Croatians, like Italians, love their wine. This miniature bukaleta (a wine pitcher) and similar wine related trinkets are everywhere (especially around the Istrian peninsula of Croatia) and most towns have their name depicted on miniature bukaletas. In Italian the pitcher is called a boccaletta or boccale and Opatija is called Abbazia.

For more on bukaletas: http://translate.google.com.au/translate?hl=en&sl=hr&u=http://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukaleta&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dbukaleta%26biw%3D1280%26bih%3D832

YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1994

MADE FROM: ceramic material

MADE IN:  Croatia (probably)

MANUFACTURER: unknown

DIMENSIONS: 7cm high , 7cm wide