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

dating to 1983

but I think this just adds to its aura

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

and which a plant (or a cocktail

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