Description
Look at the Sardine... Bordallo
Here is the Original Sardine, which served as inspiration to all the others
Completely hand painted, created with a naturalistic style, became part of the Portuguese iconography, along with other pieces of the artist, as the "Andorinhas(swallows)" and the "Zé Povinho".
Even today, re-editated from centenarians molds, Bordallo, the Original Sardine, in shoal, or alone is a design icon!
The sardines are made with high quality colors and decals, which allows them to have a very strong, intense and beautifull glow and color.
All the decorating process in each sardine is manual. The decoration is performed by decal process, which takes on average 10 minutes, producing only a few per day.
Each Bordallian sardine is wrapped in a original packaging to simulate a sheet of newspaper, in a throwback to the tradition of the sale of this fish in Lisbon, dating back to the XVIII century, between typical selling sayings, from the fishmongers.