Features:
- 1.5" x 7.25" (HxL)
- Decorative use only
- Product type: Earthenware
- Made with high quality colors and decals
- Each sardine is wrapped in a original packaging to simulate a sheet of newspaper, in a throwback to the tradition of the sale of the fish in Lisbon, dating back to the XVIII century
Product Description:
This sardine conveys the festive spirit of a typical Lisbon quarter. Is a window of Alfama full of life, adorned with precept, ready to receive Lisbon festivities, the city’s most colorful nights.
The Sardine collection by Bordallo Pinheiro results from a collaboration between the Earthenware Factory of Caldas da Rainha, founded in 1884 by Raphael Bordallo Pinheiro, EGEAC (Lisbon’s Cultural and Animation municipal entity). And Lisbon’s City Council.
The original Bordallo Pinheiro’s Sardine, designed in the XIX century, due to its classic three-dimensional nature, became the ideal support for receiving the creative work that EGEAC develops since 2003, within Lisbon’s Festivities, which transformed the sardine, iconic fish of Portuguese culture and gastronomy, an international icon of the city and of Summer celebrations of the Portuguese capital.
Designer Ana Sofia Gonçalves:
Ana Sofia Gonçalves. Born in Lisbon, 1979. She is an artist, illustrator, scenographer and teacher. She received her degree in Painting from FBAUL and the Illustration Course at Ar.Co. She has exhibited at Trema Gallery and Trindade Gallery. She illustrated the books A princesa que veio da lua, Queres namorar comigo? and Diário de um migrante, and was selected for the biennial Ilustrarte 09. She did the set design for the program É a vida Alvim, on the Q Channel and the shows O meu pai é um Homem-Pássaro and Diário de um migrante.