Features:
- Style: Contemporary
- Part type: Set Tea Cups
- Product type: Porcelain
- 1.9" x 6.6" (HxL)
- Capacity: 8.4 oz.
- Microwave and dishwasher safe
Product Description:
The Rainhas de Portugal [Queen of Portugal] tea cups pay homage to enchanting queens from Portugal's history (one of them posthumously): Inês de Castro, Rainha Santa Isabel, D. Maria II, D. Amélia, D. Estefânia and D. Leonor. Fascinating and complex figures portrayed with great sensitivity by Hélia Aluai, inspired by delicate filigree work, a typically Portuguese ornamental technique. The colors chosen - red and gold - express the passion associated with these women, as well as the cultural richness they evoke.
Artist Hélia Aluai:
Hélia Aluai, was born in Cape Verde in 1973.
Early in her live went to live in Espinho, Portugal, where she lived her childhood and much of adolescence. Moved later to Porto, where in 2000 completed a Ph.D. in Fine Arts, Sculpture in F.B.A.U.P.
Later, In January 2014, completes the Master of Architecture in Porto-E.S.A.P.
Among other activities teached the discipline of Visual Education, belonged to the CINANIMA animation film permanent workshop, being part of the jury part of the jury in 1998 of the "Young Director Portuguese".
From 2010 she fully devoted herself to her professional career, having already won a number of national and international awards.
Currently lives in Lausanne, the city where she works in the area of scenography, design and illustration.