Small Cabbage Bowl - 12cm Natural

Portugal's ceramics company Bordallo Pinheiro has a long and exciting history that began with the artist and 19th century political disruptor, Raphael Bordallo Pinheiro. A major influencer back then.

In 1884, he began a ceramics production in Caldas and the award winning and much copied home wares of Bordallo Pinheiro were born.

At Bordallo Pinheiro, the Leaf collections are more verdant than those in a hot house including sublime banana leaves. You dont have to fill these leaf-themed dishes with vegetables and salads but it certainly adds a nourishing appeal.

Bordallo Pinheiro - the natural beauty of Portugal on a plate.

In Portugal, the cabbage is a symbol of rural life, of peasant life. You don’t normally see it on restaurant menus but the humble cabbage is grown in every kitchen garden north to south. Caldo Verde, a cabbage soup, is a national dish. It is believed that Raphael’s cabbage designs were yet another ambiguous smirk at
society. Perhaps he fancied the irony of a bourgeois Parisian housewife with a ‘peasant’ cabbage as her table centrepiece.

Details
• Earthenware.
• Hand painted.
• 12cm dia x 4.5cm high.
• Made in Portugal.