First Post of the Day
While not someone who likes circuses, I do love to collect circus ponies. So when this photo popped up on social media, my attention was caught.
A Metlox Poppytrail drafter with a shelf sitter ballerina by Ceramic Arts Studio!
She doesn't belong on the horse - she's from a different pottery, but the two do look nice together.
I have two Ceramics Arts shelf sitter ballerinas.
They are two very different scales.
And I have three of the Metlox drafters (sometimes called Metlox Circus Horses), all of whom came from the Karen Grimm/Black Horse Ranch Collection.
I have perched the ballerinas on the horses a time or two
but their flat undersides, designed to sit on the edge of a shelf, table, or book,
make that a very precarious perch. I'm not sure I would trust even a generous amount of sticky wax to keep the riders in place.
The seller of the pair is not someone I am familiar with
but since both the horse and the ballerina have provenance that show they are from two different companies,
I would guess that she knows they are not a pair that were made to go together.
She would not be the first to pair a Metlox drafter and a Ceramic Arts shelf sitter together - other examples can be found on eBay and other sales sites.
This pair is for sale and for a reasonable price, but I already have two of the palomino drafters and two ballerinas. I had seen the green ballerina before on eBay but have always passed - a collection within my collection of ballerina shelf sitters is not in the plans. LOL
The photos of the pair are from a sales post on social media. If you are interested in them, contact me and I'll send you info on where to find them.
Another blog entry will be posted later this morning. Stay 'tooned!
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