PIATOTHIKI

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The countryside households were often equipped with wall niches and toicharmara (fixed cupboards in a wall niche or at the corner of two walls) for the storage of plates, while another type of furniture used for the same purpose was the wooden wall-mounted piatothiki (plate racks). The latter plate racks consisted of a rectangular - often wood carved - frame with several superimposed narrow shelves. A thin wooden rail was placed in front of each shelf to protect the plates, while in some cases the plate racks were equipped with side shelves overhanging from the rectangular frame, where glasses could also be stored. Such glasses were usually made of clay, either untreated or glazed pot mugs, and more rarely they were imported and made of glass. The latter were known as tapsatzia in the Kokkinochoria region.