III Regional wares · Plate 030
Lidded tureen
Naturalistic faience from Caldas da Rainha includes lidded pieces. Bordallo's work features animals on lids, such as a monkey on a loquat box. This tureen is shown in a general style.
The museum's account of the Caldas da Rainha factory names several lidded pieces by Bordallo. A round box of 1890, marked FFCR, has a loquat branch as its lid and a monkey forming the handle. The Arab Censer of 1896, marked "RBP 1896", has a spherical-cap lid with a seated lion as handle. The Talha Manuelina, conceived in 1891 and acquired in 1893, uses a hexagonal temple as its lid. Lidded jugs with a drinking cup are also mentioned.
Tureens belong to the tableware side of the factory. The museum lists a set of a terrine, a salt shaker and a sauce boat from 1902, in powdered stone faience (faiança de pó de pedra) and marked "FFCR- Caldas da Rainha". It adds that powdered stone faience was used for dinner services. The factory's statutes foresaw fine faience for everyday use, including tableware for the less wealthy classes, and tableware production began in 1888. The museum does not describe the form of the 1902 terrine, so this page cannot say whether it carries relief decoration.
This is a general description, not confirmed to a single source.
Source: museubordalopinheiro.pt
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