Beautifully Bruised Old Stone Fruit Pear + Lovely Black Fig, A Pair Scherenschnitte folk art with lovely blue and brown

with lovely blue and brown painterly scalloped banding on the exterior and a nice finish with two bands on the interior of the rim

with a few small dings here and there

and the hand-painted

with masking taped edges matching the darker edges of the drawing

and the repeating motif of what appear to be smiling little faces (maybe offspring

Beautifully Bruised Old Stone Fruit Pear + Lovely Black Fig, A Pair Scherenschnitte folk art with lovely blue and brownIf there is one thing I have become a connoisseur of, I believe it is stone fruit I'm super picky, looking at lots and lots of pieces to choose just one, very specifically, and I especially love making perfect pairs, which I believe this fig and pear are, bringing each other out to ultimate effect. And I love photographing them, as evident! Ive been looking for a long time for just the right fig, and finally found it in this one hard to describe