Lovesick (Liebesschmerz!) Beauty, Antique German Boudoir Dish vintage advertising sample and from what I can

and from what I can tell the two tins were once one piece

through which to the textural ribs of the stoneware clay body shows

and he seems to me very much a character who has something to say

hanging by a string and complete with shadow

what a lot of effort went into this one--to the point of obsessiveness I'd say

Lovesick (Liebesschmerz!) Beauty, Antique German Boudoir Dish vintage advertising sample and from what I canThis lovely looks like a mash up of bathing beauty and cloud floating angel to me just right I guess for expressing the simultaneous pleasure and agony of lovesickness. ("freudvoll, leidvoill, godankenvolsein, hangen und hangen in schwebenderpein" joyful, sorrowful, grateful to God, hanging and hanging in suspended pain). Seems to me a fun one for the bedside table (perhaps just the right tray for bedtime chocolates), and perhaps the perfect present