Cabbage, in its rough and flat form, could be used as a metaphor for Portugal’s rustic ways, which Bordallo had so many times caricatured. This was a clever way to honour it, placing it on the bourgeois’ tables, where other way it had not been invited.

• Handpainted
  
  
• Dimensions: 11 3/5" W x 11 3/5" L x 5 1/8" H