Old Hand-forged Meat Fork with Eponymously Carved Wooden Handle Bing and Grondahl as well as a future

as well as a future full of possibility

but was happy to open it to discover it's a writing box

" It's ubiquity does not make me love it any less

with lush cobalt blue hand-painted ginkgo leaf design over white glaze

it is hard to look at these and not think of both Joseph and Anni Albers as well as Ellsworth Kelly

Old Hand-forged Meat Fork with Eponymously Carved Wooden Handle Bing and Grondahl as well as a futureOne sees old knives and butcher blocks with BREAD carved in their handles or around the edges, but I have not ever seen a MEAT fork, and for me at least it carries a very different sort of weight! Plus, its just the time of year to put this one to use serving a holiday meal! Perhaps just the right gift to bring to a Thanksgiving host or hostessthough for me this really resonates as a symbolic sort of object, with all sorts of rather primal