Handmade Antique Valentine in Great Old Hand-carved Frame contemporary pottery vase with the clay body showing

with the clay body showing through especially on and near the foot

I love it as an object and would indeed be inclined to hang it on the wall

but it is this larger one with perfectly scratched and dinged up surface and "CHIPS" hand-painted in red that made me buy these

and blood red mouth

Handmade Antique Valentine in Great Old Hand-carved Frame contemporary pottery vase with the clay body showingWhen I your love remember Such wealth it brings That them I scorn to change My state with kings. A bit of an unusual rhyme, which gives a bit of an extra bite to the bleeding arrow on the other heart, as if shooting away others wanting to take our writer's place! I'm clearly a sucker for a handmade valentine, and also a great frame, which is definitely the case with this old carved one, detailed with gold paint that to my eye subtly echoes the form of