Adopting a modern and entrepreneurial approach, Bordallo Pinheiro played an essential role in the revitalisation of the Portuguese ceramics industry and through the artistic heritage of its factory contiues to do so today, both nationally and internationally
The cabbage, stalky and wrinkled, with its flattened shape, could serve as a metaphor for the rusticity of a Portugal that Bordallo Pinheiro so often satirises. And this is a clever way to honour it, placing it at the centre of bourgeois tables where, otherwise, it would never have been invited
Today the cabbage tableware is an essential element on any table and in any setting, admired by both the young and old
