Description
October in Normandy smells of woodsmoke and apples. In the farmhouse kitchen, Lucie lines the long table with walnuts, squash and rust-colored leaves while her brothers argue over who gets to carve. At the center she places a wicker horn spilling with grapes and pears, then steps back with flour on her cheek, pleased that the whole room now looks like gratitude. Her grandmother, peeling chestnuts by the stove, pronounces it the finest table in three generations and asks for more bread.
This porcelain cornucopia captures that golden-hour abundance, its curved horn overflowing with painted fruit. A removable pear can be lifted out and set beside it. It makes a lovely Thanksgiving centerpiece accent, a hostess gift for a harvest dinner, or a sideboard ornament from September through November. Keen cooks and orchard lovers will especially appreciate the bounty.
The details
- A curling horn of plenty filled with assorted painted fruits
- A small porcelain pear that comes out separately
- Roughly 4.25 inches long, 3 inches deep and 1.5 inches tall
- Opens for a place-card charm or a tiny keepsake
- Painted by hand in a Limoges studio, on French porcelain
- Made by Rochard
Bring it out each autumn and it becomes part of the family’s own harvest ritual. Let the youngest guest lift out the pear before the meal, and you may have started a tradition that lasts for years.
