Lovely Old Stone Fruit Pair of Pears (nicely bruised!) Rainbow Pottery north carolina elegant hand-thrown lidded pot

elegant hand-thrown lidded pot

I love it just an object

is especially lovely--and fairly unusual in having a handle

I'm pretty taken with this antique wooden sign decorated with pyrography

and his finished

Lovely Old Stone Fruit Pair of Pears (nicely bruised!) Rainbow Pottery north carolina elegant hand-thrown lidded potSince finding an exquisitely bruised looking old stone fruit peach, I've been on the hunt, with a very particular eye to what I'm looking for. This pair of pears looking like maybe a Bartlett and and Anjou completely fits the bill! Beautiful form, great color, very pear like bruising, nice wooden stems they look positively ready to slice up and put on the cheese board. I do believe old stone (marble) fruit, like clay marbles and bone domino, have