Egg Cup
AED100.00Price
Bordallo Pinheiro Egg Cup Eggshell with Chick
Beautifully hand painted, this egg cup features a sweet little chick alongside an eggshell. The egg cup shaped as an eggshell brings humour and amusement to this collection by Bordallo Pinheiro.
Height 63 mm
Width 60 mm
Portugal's most beloved cartoonist of the 19th century, Bordallo Pinheiro was famous for creating the character "Ze Povinho," a rustic laborer who was kind to his friends and contemptuous of those with money and power. His artistic style blends the honesty realism of late 19th-century Arts and Crafts movement with the dramatic, even grotesque, features of G