PORTUGUESE OCTAGONAL PLATTER — BLUE AND WHITE WITH MEMORY 🩵✨

There are faience pieces that preserve an absolutely charming simplicity. This Portuguese octagonal platter, dating from the 19th/20th century, has that honest, popular beauty I love so much: the light glaze, the intense blue, the hand-painted decoration and that antique presence only time can give.

At the centre, a naïve and poetic landscape appears, with a small building among trees, painted in shades of blue on a white ground. The floral border, also in blue, surrounds the composition with rhythm and delicacy, creating a very decorative, luminous piece full of character. The small signs of use, the craquelure of the glaze and the natural imperfections of the faience give it even more soul — they are signs of life, of table, of home, of history.

It is a platter that works beautifully both as a functional piece and as a decorative object, perfect for a wall, a side table, a display cabinet or a composition of antique faience pieces. It has that Portuguese charm, unpretentious and authentic, that warms any interior and immediately connects us to tradition.

Portuguese faience octagonal platter, blue and white decoration, 19th/20th century.