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The Peacock dinner plate features hand-painted green fronds sweeping from a single cobalt centre, bordered by a ring of hand-dotted blue. Produced in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal, the pattern follows an eighteenth-century decorative tradition in which a natural motif — fern or feather — is rendered through a geometric, repeating hand technique. The design carries an ambiguity between old and new that reflects its long-standing continuity in Portuguese ceramic craft. Compatible with the Cordelia plate range and sold as a set of 4.
A set of 4 hand-painted dinner plates from Caldas da Rainha — sweeping green fronds fanning from a single cobalt centre, ringed by a border of hand-dotted blue.. This pattern has been turning on Portuguese wheels since the eighteenth century — a motif borrowed from nature and made entirely geometric by the painter's hand. It looks like a fern. It looks like a feather. It looks like neither.. JJ first saw it propped in a Lisbon kitchen and spent some time deciding whether it was very old or very new. That ambiguity, she concluded, was precisely the point.. Place it alone or among the Cordelia plate range. The choice is yours
