We met at noon at the Time Out Market for some lunch. It is more of a modern food hall with traditional veggie, fish and meats available on the wings of the building. A ring of food stalls in the center of the building has seating in the center of all the stalls. We each searched for something that looked tasty. Leslie got a huge salad, I got a series of three pickled bits served in sardine cans. Omar got his favorites, meat croquettes. Carlos and JC got their dishes while I was engrossed in my lunch so there is no data for them. From the Time Out we walked a mile south thru an artsy area and also thru some very modern buildings. When we got to the Museum we thought that an hour would be plenty and so we ventured into the collection with a plan to meet again after an hour. We did meet after an hour on the top floor and planned out the rest of the day. We wanted to see the gardens outside the museum. On out way there we discovered an entire wing of the museum that we would have missed otherwise. Needless to say, everyone spent additional time at the museum. JC was off to meet a friend so the four of us decided that a low key charcutterie dinner would be just fine
Tomatoes at the veggie side
Gins for sale
My lunch
My leftovers
Nice clock tower
Big bronzer
A lion dejected by a pigeon
A weather vane worthy of the tower upon where it sits
The curvsive writing says
Big blocky building
Purposefully wonky
Serious shadows
The concrete and the shadows
Juan Carlos
We saw this twice
The pink part is too ambiguous to determine the meaning
One big tree
Big roots in the community
Most fun
This park was closed so further examinations was blocked
Deco, dude
This is a nice neighborhood
The private portal of entry to a design house
Tiles everywhere
Another deco building
Clocktower ahead!
The Museum de Arte Antiga
The Money Shot
Tiny beds made for tiny Jesuses
This desk had so many features that there was a video playing right next to it showing all the secret compartments and drawers
Happy hippo feet
Yes I would like this piece, can you deliver?
A tiny chair for.....Tiny Jesus
A bread mold
The outdoor garden looked inviting from inside in the AAC
A map and a piece of art
Stirrups from Japan
Lots of Japanese items made it here after the Portuguese set up a trading port in Japan
Exotic wood with ivory inlay
This cabinet looked like it had been vandalized
by a person with a bag of googly eyes
Ivory box
Detail to beat the band
Rhino horn with gold
Jewels for M'Lady
With custom built boxes
Emeralds and pearls
This scepter had four extenders depending on the height of the bearer of the scepter
More precious stones
I thought that we had already seen some impressive gems but...
these were huge
Each side had the same big stones
Duck, duck
Chicken!
Eek an eel
Never before have I seen a porcelain violin
Grateful Dead kind of tile
It lookes like it was one piece of wood
Outside we find Neptune
But it was hot!
So we cooled off with some marble
Marble statues by Antonio Canova (1757-1822) photographed by Mimmo Jodice (born 1934)
Showing it all
In the Museum
A little alcove had tea sets
So delicate
