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Pandora Cereal Bowl, Cobalt Blue

£99

Materials
Fine European Earthernware
Height
6 cm
Width
16 cm
Depth
16 cm

The bold central bloom and sweeping fern of Caldas da Rainha's seven-century blue and white tradition, in a bowl that makes every morning feel like it deserves more attention than it usually gets.

There is something the Portuguese love about blue and white at breakfast that the rest of Europe is catching on to. The bloom at the centre of the set of 4 Pandora Cereal Bowl, Cobalt Blue disappears under fruit and reappears between spoonfuls, revealing the beautiful pattern beneath.

Use as a snack bowl, fruit, crisps or anything you like.

Inspiration
The azulejos begin in Lisbon and do not stop. They cover the facades of churches, the walls of railway stations, the interiors of restaurants where the food is extraordinary, and nobody is paying attention to the tiles because the wine arrived first.

JJ has been paying attention to the tiles since her first visit, because she understood early that the pattern running across a nineteenth-century Lisbon facade and the pattern on a plate from Caldas da Rainha are the same conversation — one that began in a Moorish workshop in Andalusia and has been continued, in clay and pigment, without interruption, ever since.

Portugal did not borrow this tradition. It absorbed it so completely that it became its own.
Collectors Questions

Q: Are the cereal bowls just for cereal?


A: They're shaped for daily use well beyond cereal — yoghurt and fruit, a small salad, or a snack all work equally well. It's usually the piece that sees the most regular use of any in the collection.

Q: How should I wash them to protect the glaze with daily use?


A: A low-temperature or eco dishwasher cycle (≤30–40°C) with a mild detergent is fine occasionally, with heated drying switched off. Because cereal bowls tend to be washed most frequently of any piece, hand-washing is the habit most worth adopting here if you want the glaze to hold its colour for years.

Q: Can I buy the cereal bowl on its own, without the full dinner set?


A: Yes, each piece is available as a set of 4. Many collectors start with the cereal bowl for breakfast and build out to the dinner plate and side plate over time.

Q: Will the pattern or colour fade with the frequency of washing a breakfast bowl gets?


A: Hand-painted glaze ages gracefully rather than fading the way a printed pattern would. Gentle care — low heat, mild detergent, no heated drying — is what keeps it looking rich rather than any need to use it less.

Q: Is the cereal bowl a practical everyday gift, even as a single piece?


A: Very much so — a single well-made bowl is a genuinely useful, low-pressure gift, and it's often how people are introduced to a collection before deciding to collect the rest of it.

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At Casa by JJ, we believe true luxury considers its legacy, not just in heirloom pieces, but in the planet we leave behind. That’s why we are proud to triple carbon offset, going beyond neutral to give back more than we take. Every collection is a step towards a greener future, where beauty at home and responsibility to the world exist in harmony.

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