In Portugal, the cabbage is a symbol of rural life, of peasant life. You don’t normally see it on restaurant menus but the humble cabbage is grown in every kitchen garden north to south. Caldo Verde, a cabbage soup, is a national dish. It is believed that Raphael’s cabbage designs were yet another ambiguous smirk at
society. Perhaps he fancied the irony of a bourgeois Parisian housewife with a ‘peasant’ cabbage as her table centrepiece.
Details
• Earthenware.
• Hand painted.
• 12cm dia x 4.5cm high.
• Made in Portugal.
