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Pages in category "Ceramics manufacturers of Portugal" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. E.
In 1885 Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro founded a ceramics factory in Caldas da Rainha, where he created many of the pottery designs for which this city is known. In this factory he has his own a museum São Rafael devoted to his fantastically imaginative work, especially the decorative plates and his satirical stone figures, such as the Zé Povinho (a ...
Porches Pottery is a producer of hand-painted pottery in the town of Porches, in the Algarve region of Portugal. The pottery style was founded in 1968 by artists Patrick Swift and Lima de Freitas , in order to revive a traditional Algarve pottery industry.
The word azulejo in Portuguese and Spanish, referring to a style of painted tile in Portugal and Spain, derives from the word zillīj. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] In Spain, the mosaic tile technique used in historical Islamic monuments like the Alhambra is also referred to as alicatado , a Spanish word deriving from the Arabic verb qata'a ( ﻗَﻄَﻊَ ...
Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, (1846-1905), known for illustrations, caricatures, sculpture and ceramics designs, and is considered the first Portuguese comics creator; Júlio Pomar (1926-2018) Henrique Pousão (1859-1884) Pedro Portugal (born 1963) Kim Prisu (born 1962)
'Blue flowers/patterns') covers a wide range of white pottery and porcelain decorated under the glaze with a blue pigment, generally cobalt oxide. The decoration was commonly applied by hand, originally by brush painting, but nowadays by stencilling or by transfer-printing , though other methods of application have also been used.
Transfer printing is a method of decorating pottery or other materials using an engraved copper or steel plate from which a monochrome print on paper is taken which is then transferred by pressing onto the ceramic piece. [1] Pottery decorated using this technique is known as transferware or transfer ware.
Campos also painted Portugal's only known 16th-century profane mural at the Paço de São Miguel (Évora) in 1578, with allegorical frescoes celebrating mythology, nature, and historical events like the conquest of Tunis in 1535. His work marked Portugal's definitive embrace of an internationalist artistic cycle.