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Makers
The factories and the people whose names are on the bottom of the plate.
- 01 The cartoonist who built a potteryRafael Bordalo Pinheiro drew Portugal’s best-known satirical figure, then spent his last twenty years modelling frogs, lizards and dragonflies in clay.
- 02 Vista Alegre: a chapel, a licence and a porcelain worksPortugal’s best-known porcelain began on a farm estate near the Aveiro lagoon, around a baroque chapel. What the company, a heritage association and the press say about 1824.
