Cactus Ornament GREEN minus the 2017 renovation

minus the 2017 renovation

There is no shelf here

so the depth of blue shifts slightly depending on how the glaze pooled in the kiln

and it looks like a pig

Cactus Ornament GREEN minus the 2017 renovationThe best cactus gifts tend to outlast their recipients, and this one is engineered to do just that a hand blown glass barrel cactus, ribbed and dotted with fine painted spines, that asks nothing and outlives everything else on the windowsill. You will notice the spines are suggested rather than crowded; a real barrel's needles read as restraint from a distance, and overpainting them turns the whole plant into a pincushion. A small painted bloom sits