Arabella Side Plate, Green Palm Tree

The gold-scaled trunk and green fronds of Caldas da Rainha's most well-travelled motif, on a side plate where two pink blooms hold the rim like bookends.

At this scale the palm becomes something more intimate — a courtyard glimpsed rather than entered. The white ground still breathes, the trunk still rises, and the two remaining blooms frame it with the quiet authority of a composition that knows exactly what it is doing.
JJ places this set of 4 Arabella Side Plate beside the dinner plate, or alone with cheese at the end of a long lunch.