Lovesick (Liebesschmerz!) Beauty, Antique German Boudoir Dish vintage advertising sample which always makes for winning

which always makes for winning in my book

through which to the textural ribs of the stoneware clay body shows

what a wonderfully awkward gesture (look at the placement of her feet)

Perfect for framing

and from what I can tell the two tins were once one piece

Lovesick (Liebesschmerz!) Beauty, Antique German Boudoir Dish vintage advertising sample which always makes for winningThis lovely looks like a mash up of bathing beauty and cloud floating angel to me just right I guess for expressing the simultaneous pleasure and agony of lovesickness. ("freudvoll, leidvoill, godankenvolsein, hangen und hangen in schwebenderpein" joyful, sorrowful, grateful to God, hanging and hanging in suspended pain). Seems to me a fun one for the bedside table (perhaps just the right tray for bedtime chocolates), and perhaps the perfect present