{"title":"Food Ornaments for the Christmas Tree","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eFood ornaments for a christmas tree are exactly what they sound like and better than they sound: the things a household actually eats, argues about, and orders at eleven at night, rendered in hand-painted glass and hung where everyone can see them. A glass taco is not an abstract holiday motif. It is a portrait of somebody in this house, and the tree knows exactly who.\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eThe range runs the whole menu — bakery, produce, takeout, sushi, coffee, and the drinks cabinet — each piece blown and then painted by hand at the Chive studio. Food is the easiest gifting category in the collection because everyone eats and almost everyone has one dish that constitutes a personality trait. Find the dish, hang the dish. The recognition does the rest, every December, without needing to be reheated.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"bacon-ornament","title":"Bacon Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis bacon ornament captures the single food that became a personality type without anyone holding a vote, blown from a gather of molten glass and painted in crimson-and-caramel stripes with a cap for hanging overhead. It sits on the tree the way bacon sits on a plate — unapologetic, central, declining to share attention with the eggs. The bacon person in your life brings it up at breakfast, obviously, but also at other meals and in conversations that were not about food, in the specific tone of someone who expects agreement and has always received it. They do not consider bacon a preference. They consider it a settled matter. My coworker Phil once brought bacon to a potluck where the theme was dessert and nobody questioned it because Phil had already made his position clear years earlier and further discussion seemed redundant. This ornament says what Phil has been saying all along. TIFF celebrates auteurs who commit fully to a single vision; bacon qualifies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911797448841,"sku":"ORN209","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-bacon-package-1.webp?v=1784813395"},{"product_id":"banana-oranment","title":"Banana Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eA banana ornament succeeds by admitting what a banana is: a fruit with a one-day window of perfection that always lands on a day you are not home. Ours is hand-blown glass, painted in the exact ripening yellow of that one missed Tuesday, freckled realistically at the stem, and hung from a firm metal cap that will outlast every real banana you ever buy. The glass is worked over an open flame and colored in layers, so the curve reads as fruit and not as prop. My friend Nell buys bananas every single week with the confidence of a woman who has never once eaten the last one. Her freezer holds four black bananas and one unbaked intention labeled bread. She will get there. The banana believes in her, and so do I, and now there is a version that cannot turn. Nell's timing is the kind TIFF builds whole retrospectives around, though her freezer footage remains unreleased.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911797481609,"sku":"ORN218","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-peeled-banana-1.webp?v=1784813552"},{"product_id":"cheeseburger-with-ketchup-ornament","title":"Cheeseburger with Ketchup Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eA cheeseburger ornament blown from glass by hand — painted ketchup dripping down a sesame-seed bun, every detail rendered because a cheeseburger is a value system and value systems deserve precision. Shaped glass, hand-applied paint, metal cap, hanging loop: it is built to last longer than any debate about condiments. There is a hierarchy of cheeseburger opinions in this country and everyone believes they sit at the top, which is perhaps the most American thing about us or simply what happens when a food becomes a belief. Whoever you are buying this for has a place — a specific place, possibly called Duffy's or described only by the exit number — and they have been taking people there for years. The look on their face when someone orders wrong is a thing you have witnessed and will not forget. Hang this and watch them tell the story again. TIFF programs entire festivals around devotion that specific; the cheeseburger understands.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911797645449,"sku":"ORN033","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-cheeseburger-1.webp?v=1784814666"},{"product_id":"chinese-take-out-ornament","title":"Chinese Take Out Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn the shortlist of genuinely original chinese food gifts, the Chinese Take Out Ornament stands alone: a hand-painted glass rendering of the classic white folded carton, wire handle included, at 1.38 inches long and 1.18 inches wide, rising 3.94 inches tall. The carton shape is blown into a sculpted mold while the glass still glows, and the fold lines and red pagoda details go on by brush once the form has set. The paper original was patented in the 1890s and has not required a single improvement since, which is a track record almost nothing else made by humans can claim. Gloria orders from the same place every Tuesday, and the restaurant answers the phone by reading her order back to her. That is not a transaction; that is a relationship. This ornament honors it. File it, mentally, next to the design classics inside the Royal Ontario Museum's cases — the carton has earned the company.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911797776521,"sku":"ORN175","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-takeout-box-1.webp?v=1784815384"},{"product_id":"champagne-ornament","title":"Champagne Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eA champagne ornament belongs on the tree of anyone who finds occasions easily, and December is nothing but occasions. This is a hand-blown glass champagne bottle, foil-gold at the neck, deep bottle-green through the body, label painted freehand, hanging from a firm cap and sturdy loop at a jaunty, celebratory, slightly irresponsible tilt. The glass is blown thin and colored in the mass, so it glows when the tree lights hit it. Simone opens champagne on ordinary Tuesdays, on the firm grounds that it is Tuesday and there is champagne and it would be a shame not to. Several of my best Tuesdays are her fault. I have adopted the policy and regretted nothing except the mornings. Hang the glass bottle exactly where she would hang it: front, center, and well within reach. Civilizations get catalogued by what they toasted with — ask the Royal Ontario Museum — and Simone's Tuesdays now have their artifact.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911797842057,"sku":"ORN221","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-champagne-bottle-1.webp?v=1784815712"},{"product_id":"bucket-of-popcorn-ornament","title":"Bucket of Popcorn Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eA popcorn ornament for the Christmas tree should look like it just came from the concession stand, and Chive's hand-blown glass bucket delivers nearly four inches of red-and-white striped glass packed with kernels that are individually painted and permanently unbuttered. The bucket starts as a molten glass bubble shaped into a truncated cone, and the red stripes are applied while the surface is cool enough for pigment adhesion but warm enough that the paint bonds chemically rather than sitting on top. Each kernel is a separate raised dot of off-white paint, placed in a deliberate heap that mimics the overflow a real bucket achieves approximately four seconds after purchase. The stripe width varies slightly from piece to piece because a human hand held the brush, and a human hand does not produce factory intervals. This is the food-adjacent art object TIFF would include in a festival lobby display, where the subject is popular culture and the execution is anything but casual.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911797874825,"sku":"ORN238","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-popcorn-box-1.webp?v=1784816286"},{"product_id":"chocolate-cupcake-ornament","title":"Chocolate Cupcake Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe chocolate cupcake ornament preserves, in hand-blown glass, a dessert that once had a cultural moment and has been quietly living it down ever since. Frosting swirl, paper-cup ridges, hand-painted color on shaped glass — made the slow, traditional way, capped with a metal hanging loop, and ready to earn its branch on the tree. The cupcake became a personality in the mid-2000s before anyone understood the consequences: lines around the block, television shows, price points that required a brief sit-down. Then it was over, and the cupcake was just a cupcake again, slightly embarrassed, doing its best. But the person who waited in that line, who found it worth it, who still finds it worth it and does not need the cultural moment to justify the frosting — that person is correct, and this is for them. The Royal Ontario Museum keeps entire galleries devoted to things civilizations briefly worshipped. We rest our case.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911797907593,"sku":"ORN008","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-cupcake-1.webp?v=1784816405"},{"product_id":"croissant-ornament","title":"Croissant Ornament - Large","description":"\u003cp\u003eA croissant ornament in hand-blown glass — golden layers and a buttery curve captured in shaped glass, every ridge hand-painted, the piece finished and ready to hang by its metal loop. It holds its own among larger ornaments without apology, which is exactly what a croissant does on a bakery shelf. Everyone who has eaten a good croissant has a croissant opinion, and the opinion is always that their croissant was the best one, and the story involves a specific bakery and a line and a morning that was, somehow, worth the wait. My mother tells hers at every holiday dinner and the details shift each year and nobody corrects her because the pastry has earned the right to be remembered however she likes. Hang this for the person with that story. You will know them immediately because they are already telling it. TIFF screens films about obsessions like that one; the croissant qualifies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911798005897,"sku":"ORN028","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-croissant-1.webp?v=1784820038"},{"product_id":"fast-food-combo-ornament","title":"Fast Food Combo Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Fast Food Combo Ornament packs a burger, a cardboard sleeve of golden fries, and a fountain drink into one bag, painted in hand-blown glass, grease spot soaking through the paper and all. Our glassblowers shape it first, painters add the detail by hand, and a metal loop finishes it, sized to hold its spot on a full tree. Somewhere in your life is a person with a usual order, recited from memory and understood before it's finished by whoever's at the window that day. This one is for that regular, who hasn't opened a menu in years, because opening it would suggest a doubt that was never really the issue. Hang it near the lights and someone in the room will name the exact drive-through within four seconds. That is not a coincidence — it is recognition, on a branch, of a rhythm nobody had to explain out loud. TIFF would happily stock this brand of specific, understood joke, if its gift shop carried combo meals the way it carries film reels.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911798038665,"sku":"ORN053","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-fast-food-set-1.webp?v=1784820132"},{"product_id":"french-fries-ornament","title":"French Fries Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eGolden, salted, and gleaming with just the right shine, this french fries ornament renders a paper sleeve of fries in hand-finished glass. Glassblowers form the shape, painters add the color and that particular grease-sheen entirely by hand, then a small metal cap finishes it off, sized to tuck between larger ornaments without disappearing. Nobody has ever eaten a french fry and felt genuine regret about wanting one more, and nobody has ever meant it when they said they probably should not have. The fries arrive hot and salted and vanish before any real decision gets made about them, and the only open question was ever how many, and the answer was always more than originally planned. Buy this for whoever intends to have just a few and never quite does, and has never once been sorry about it. The Royal Ontario Museum has never displayed a fry, but it would understand the appeal of something devoured on sight.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911798071433,"sku":"ORN069","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-french-fries-1.webp?v=1784820246"},{"product_id":"coffee-cup-ornament","title":"Coffee Cup Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe coffee cup ornament honors the beverage that most mornings are legally required to begin with. It is a mouth-blown glass mug for the tree — handle, saucer-white glaze, a painted swirl of steam rising off the rim — built with a reinforced loop so it hangs perfectly level on the branch, the way any full cup should. Every cup is shaped by breath and finished by brush, which is more craftsmanship than most of us can manage before ten a.m. In our house, Marcus does not speak before his first cup, and we do not speak to him; the household runs on a system of nods that has kept the peace for eleven years. His mug has a spot. Nobody moves the mug. This is the ornament for that person, hung at eye level as fair warning to guests. A Royal Ontario Museum placard would call it an everyday artifact, circa right now.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911798235273,"sku":"ORN219","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-coffee-cup-1.webp?v=1784821023"},{"product_id":"eggplant-ornament","title":"Eggplant Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn eggplant ornament is a glass vegetable, blown by mouth and painted by hand, designed to hang on a Christmas tree and say exactly what you think it says, which is either a sincere tribute to Mediterranean cooking or something else entirely, and the ornament is content with both readings. Chive's version stands nearly five inches of deep purple glass, shaped from a molten gather and painted while the surface is still warm enough to bond pigment to silica at the molecular level. The calyx is a separate green element, applied by hand so no two sit at the same angle. A single metallic cap anchors the hanging loop. The stem tapers to an anatomical point because the painters referenced actual aubergines from a market in Kensington, and the aubergine does not simplify itself for decorative purposes. It would hold its own alongside objects in TIFF's lobby cases that take their material seriously and their subject with appropriate humor.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911798300809,"sku":"ORN229","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-eggplant-1.webp?v=1784821332"},{"product_id":"espresso-machine-ornament","title":"Espresso Machine Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen the search for barista gifts reaches the Christmas tree, this hand-blown glass espresso machine is the answer that actually looks like it belongs in a kitchen and on a branch simultaneously. Chive's miniature packs under four inches of painted detail, blown from liquid glass at the furnace and shaped to replicate the boxy proportions and portafilter of a countertop machine at a scale where the group handle is smaller than a fingernail. The steam wand is a painted element, not an appendage, which means it was rendered in perspective on a curved surface by a painter who understood how shadows fall on stainless steel and was willing to explain this with three shades of gray. The drip tray is a single dark line with enough depth to read as recessed. For anyone whose morning identity is built around extraction ratios and crema, this ornament belongs near the deliberate craft objects at the Royal Ontario Museum, where precision is the standard and the subject earns the effort.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911798333577,"sku":"ORN232","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-espresso-machine-1.webp?v=1784821779"},{"product_id":"hot-dog-on-a-bun-ornament","title":"Hot Dog on a Bun Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe hot dog ornament is a hand-blown glass Christmas ornament shaped like a fully dressed hot dog on a bun, mustard painted on and ketchup pointedly absent. Each one is mouth-blown and hand-painted in the traditional method, finished with a metal cap and hanging loop, and scaled to hold its own on a full tree. My father ate hot dogs at every sporting event he attended for forty years and called it dinner, with the serene confidence of a man who never once questioned a food decision. Mustard only. Offer him ketchup and he would look at you the way you look at someone who has revealed something about themselves at a party. You already know a person exactly like this. You have known them your entire life. Hang this for them. It is the kind of small, exact object you would expect to find in the gift shop at the Royal Ontario Museum, which is precisely the point.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911798431881,"sku":"ORN001","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-hot-dog-1.webp?v=1784822559"},{"product_id":"oreo-cookie-ornament","title":"Sandwich Cookie Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eA cookie ornament settles an argument nobody asked to have, and this one — a hand-blown glass sandwich cookie, two chocolate wafers and the cream between them — settles it beautifully. The glass is mouth-blown over an open flame, the wafer texture and cream line are hand-painted, and the whole thing hangs from a standard hook like it has nothing left to prove. There are two kinds of people, and the sandwich cookie has always known which kind you are. The twisters, who separate the halves with surgical precision, eat the filling first, and consider this the correct approach. And the biters, who eat it whole and find the twisters slightly exhausting. Both are wrong about the other. Both are completely right about themselves. Someone in your life has explained their methodology to a person who did not ask. This is theirs. If TIFF ever programs a documentary about that argument, we would like this ornament considered for the poster.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911798464649,"sku":"ORN006","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-sandwich-cookie-1.webp?v=1784822671"},{"product_id":"ice-cream-cone-ornament","title":"Ice Cream Cone Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn ice cream ornament captures the sixty-second window between perfect and catastrophe, and Chive freezes that window permanently in mouth-blown glass. The cone rises nearly five inches tall — scoop, waffle cone, the whole architecture of a summer afternoon — produced by an artisan whose breath determines the exact curve of the drip and the precise lean of the scoop, both calibrated to suggest that the ice cream is about to move but never will. The painted surface layers vanilla over waffle in a color sequence that any cone strategist will recognize and approve of, because cone strategy is a real discipline and the people who practice it take it seriously. Hang this where the tree lights warm the glass and the cone appears to glow the way cones glow under boardwalk bulbs in late July. Chive has shaped ornaments since 2004, and today the Royal Ontario Museum collects them — this scoop belongs in any gathering that prizes craft above gravity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911798825097,"sku":"ORN104","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-ice-cream-cone-1.webp?v=1784825398"},{"product_id":"pink-champagne-bottle-ornament","title":"Pink Champagne Bottle Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eGood champagne gifts announce the occasion before anyone pops a cork, and Chive's Pink Champagne Bottle Ornament makes that announcement from the branch in hand-blown glass standing over five inches tall. An artisan forms the bottle from one continuous gather — neck, shoulders, the slight bulge of a vessel that knows what it contains — then a painter layers the pink in two coats, the second deeper than the first, producing a surface that shifts between rose and blush depending on which tree light hits it. The foil cap is finished in metallic gold paint applied with a brush small enough to sign a check, and the label detail is precise enough to fool a sommelier from three feet away, which is the distance at which most trees are actually examined. Glass ornaments have left Chive's bench since 2004, and TIFF has featured the work — this bottle greets your evergreen with the celebratory weight any good champagne carries to the table.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911798857865,"sku":"ORN106","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-rose-bottle-1.webp?v=1784825532"},{"product_id":"macaron-ornament","title":"Macaron Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis macaron ornament is glass shaped by breath into the French cookie that takes three days to make correctly and looks like it knows it. Pastel layers are brush-painted one coat at a time, and a cap and cord sit at the crown, sized for any branch. It captures the quiet confidence of a pastry that has never once apologized for being difficult. My friend Claire attempted macarons in an apartment with an oven that ran hot and spent an afternoon she will never recover producing something that tasted right but looked like a before photo. She has not tried again. She does not need to. The macaron has been perfected by other people with the patience and the piping bags, and Claire supports them fully from across the counter with her wallet and her admiration and zero intention of starting over. This ornament honors both positions with equal seriousness. The Royal Ontario Museum understands presentation at this level; so does Chive.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911799251081,"sku":"ORN205","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-macaron-1.webp?v=1784830413"},{"product_id":"pickle-ornament","title":"Pickle Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe strongest pickle gifts come with a game attached, and the glass pickle is the original. This is the traditional hidden pickle ornament — hand-blown glass, painted a glossy dill green, warted convincingly, hung from a discreet cap and loop engineered to disappear into a branch. Its origins are disputed among German markets, Victorian folklore, and an 1880s importer's marketing department, and none of that matters, because the rules survived: hide it somewhere unreasonable, find it, claim the prize. My sister Denise found it seven Christmases running as a child. She is now a tax attorney in Phoenix. I am not saying these things are connected, and I am not saying they are not. Give one to a family and you have given them an argument, a ritual, and eventually a champion. Objects with disputed origins tend to land in the Royal Ontario Museum or in a family argument, and this one chose the argument.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911799316617,"sku":"ORN224","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-pickle-1.webp?v=1784831326"},{"product_id":"pink-donut-ornament","title":"Pink Donut Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Pink Donut Ornament is a blown-glass circle that has accepted its identity as the donut everyone pictures when someone says the word donut, which is pink and frosted and sprinkled and entirely unbothered by the association. Chive's version measures roughly three-and-a-half inches across, created by inflating molten glass into a toroidal mold and shaping the hole by hand while the gather is still plastic. The frosting is a painted glaze applied in a single unbroken pass, and the sprinkles are individual dots of colored pigment placed one at a time with a single-hair brush because a machine would distribute them evenly and real sprinkles are never even. The hanging loop is set off-center to mimic the slight asymmetry of a real pastry resting on a plate. It is a glass confection that belongs alongside the carefully absurd objects in TIFF's permanent collection, where sincerity and craft meet a subject that refuses to be solemn about itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911799382153,"sku":"ORN231","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-donut-1.webp?v=1784831502"},{"product_id":"pink-champagne-ornament","title":"Pink Champagne Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Pink Champagne Ornament is a tall glass bottle, blown by hand, that has chosen the more interesting version of itself, which is the champagne's prerogative and also the definition of good taste applied to a holiday tree. Chive's rendition stands nearly six inches and is worked from molten glass on the blowpipe, inflated and sculpted to capture the heavy-bottomed silhouette and sloping shoulders of a real bottle. The pink is an interior tint, not a surface coat, which means the color lives inside the glass wall and changes value as the tree lights shift behind it. The foil capsule at the neck is painted in metallic gold with a wrapped-edge detail that required the painter to rotate the piece continuously during application. The label area carries text-weight painted lines that suggest typography without committing to legible words. For an object that makes color a structural decision, it belongs alongside the decorative-arts holdings at the Royal Ontario Museum, where materiality defines the collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911799447689,"sku":"ORN242","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-champagne-bottle-2.webp?v=1784831974"},{"product_id":"sapphire-gin-ornament","title":"Sapphire Gin Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmong gin gifts, the Sapphire Gin Ornament has one job: to say you were paying attention. A glass bottle in that unmistakable blue, blown by hand with the label detail painted on, it hangs from a standard metal cap and loop. The gin person in your life has opinions about botanicals — not casual opinions, considered ones, involving words like juniper-forward, deployed in the tone of someone who has done the reading and would like you to know it without appearing to want you to know it. They have a preferred tonic. They have feelings about ice. They may have attended a distillery tour they describe as life-changing in a way that makes you want to be supportive while also slightly concerned. This is their ornament, and it is not a comment on the gin. 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My cousin walked into Thanksgiving wearing a shirt that matched this ornament exactly, and when someone pointed it out she told everyone: because I am the donut, and she was correct. Someone in your life is the donut. They know who they are and they have never once been uncertain. Hang this for them. The Royal Ontario Museum displays artifacts that tell a culture's story in a single object; the pink donut belongs in that conversation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911799644297,"sku":"ORN030","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-donut-rainbow-sprinkle-1.webp?v=1784832763"},{"product_id":"avocado-ornament","title":"Avocado Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn avocado ornament in hand-blown glass — halved, pit painted on in careful detail, the green shading done entirely by hand over glass shaped in the old method. Loop attached, ready for its branch, and quietly confident about being there. Before it was toast the avocado was just a fruit, which people ate without commentary or cultural significance or anyone writing a column about it in a newspaper. It was a fruit that was also somehow a vegetable that was also somehow a lifestyle, and it has been here for ten thousand years and has survived worse and is not particularly concerned about what happened in the last decade. Buy this for the person who loved avocados before they were a thing. They wanted the recognition longer than they would ever admit, and a glass avocado on the tree is exactly the quiet recognition they have earned. 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The take-out container has become the symbol of a life lived on entirely reasonable terms, one where cooking happens sometimes and does not happen other times, and the difference no longer requires an apology or a long internal negotiation. Somebody in your circle made peace with ordering in long before the rest of the household caught up, and quietly helped everyone else get there too. This one belongs to whoever made that peace first. 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Each pepperoni is applied as its own small dot of color after the cheese layer sets, a step that takes considerably longer than anyone glancing at the finished piece would ever guess from a few feet away, and the crust gets a separate shading pass to read as genuinely browned rather than flat orange. Somewhere out there is a doorway, at a specific hour, in weather that was fully committed to being terrible, where someone ate the best slice of their entire life for three dollars and has never stopped comparing every subsequent meal to it, unfavorably and without apology, no matter how much the meal cost. They know exactly which doorway it was. Buy this for them. Finish like this belongs on a shelf at ROM, earned one pepperoni at a time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911800070281,"sku":"ORN086","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-pizza-slice.webp?v=1784836654"},{"product_id":"sprinkle-donuts-ornament","title":"Sprinkle Donuts Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Sprinkle Donuts Ornament belongs in any lineup of donut gifts built for the person who brings the box to the office and quietly improves everyone's entire morning, a hand-blown glass donut hand-painted with individual sprinkles in six separate colors. Every sprinkle is placed by hand after the glaze coat sets, a step that turns what could be a fast piece into a deliberately slow one without a word of complaint from anyone in the studio, one sprinkle at a time, until the whole surface is covered. It asks nothing of the person receiving it except that they eat the metaphorical donut and feel the specific, uncomplicated pleasure of something designed purely to make a Saturday better and succeeding completely at that one modest job. Whoever brings the donuts deserves this ornament and frankly a great deal more than that. Every sprinkle was placed against the standard set by the Royal Ontario Museum, and the donut meets it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911800201353,"sku":"ORN088","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-stacked-donuts-1.webp?v=1784836729"},{"product_id":"pink-sprinkles-donut-ornament-1","title":"Pink Sprinkles Donut Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Pink Sprinkles Donut Ornament brings the break-room Saturday to the evergreen, rendered in hand-blown glass that weighs roughly what the real pastry weighs after you have already eaten half of it standing at the counter pretending you are only looking. Chive's artisans shape molten glass into a ring glazed in the exact shade of pink frosting that has never once tried to be anything other than itself, then scatter hand-painted sprinkles across the surface in a pattern that commits to joy without reservation. The donut measures just over three inches across and barely an inch tall, making it the most convincingly proportioned glass pastry that has ever hung from a branch. Hang it where the kitchen light reaches the tree and watch someone try to pick it off by instinct alone. Chive opened its studio in 2004 and has supplied ornaments showcased at TIFF — this donut delivers identical craft with no calorie count.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911800332425,"sku":"ORN094","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-donut-pink-1.webp?v=1784837226"},{"product_id":"6-pack-of-beer-ornament","title":"6 pack of Beer Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eMost gifts for beer lovers involve actual beer, which vanishes; the 6 pack of Beer Ornament does not, which is the entire argument for it. This hand-painted glass six-pack measures 3.54 inches long, 2.17 inches wide, and 2.95 inches tall, and every bottle stays exactly where it was put. The carrier and bottles are blown together as a single form, and the amber tones and label details are brushed on individually, so no two packs leave the studio quite alike. Doug has supplied the beer at every gathering our family has held since 2011, and his contribution disappears first and gets thanked least, while the fancy cheese sits largely untouched and collects the compliments. Everyone knows this. Nobody says it. Hang the six-pack front and center this year and consider the debt acknowledged. The Royal Ontario Museum documents what civilizations actually valued, and on honest evidence, this belongs in that record.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911800561801,"sku":"ORN180","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-beer-sixpack-1.webp?v=1784900884"},{"product_id":"turkey-ornament","title":"Turkey Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eA turkey ornament is an act of respect, and the Turkey Ornament pays it in full: hand-painted glass, 2.56 inches in diameter and 1.93 inches tall, feathers fanned in bronze and copper tones. The rounded body is blown to shape and the plumage is painted feather by feather in metallic layers, which takes roughly as long as the bird itself takes to cook and produces far fewer arguments. The turkey demands more planning than most international travel and generates more conversation about brine than brine has ever earned. Aunt Carol rises at an hour that should not legally exist on a holiday, makes the gravy from scratch, and accepts her applause with the weary grace of a person who will do it all again next year. She has earned permanent representation on the tree. This is that representation. 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Frank became a man with an expensive centerpiece and no regrets and no bourbon, technically, because the bourbon was still in there — sealed, warm, admired, untouched. The whiskey person in your life has a version of this story. They have a preferred glass shape. They have feelings about ice that they share at the exact moment nobody asked. This ornament holds their position on the matter, at a scale the Royal Ontario Museum would file under miniature studies in devotion.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911800922249,"sku":"ORN203","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-whiskey-bottle-gold-1.webp?v=1784901420"},{"product_id":"strawberry-ornament","title":"Strawberry Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eA proper strawberry ornament should depict the June strawberry — the warm, farm-stand one that ruins you — and not the February impostor, and ours takes a side. It is mouth-blown glass, painted in the deep saturated red that grocery stores have never once managed, seeded by hand in fine gold dots, and crowned with green leaves right at the cap and loop. The color is layered on in coats, then sealed, so it holds that first-bite red for good. Ruth will not buy strawberries between October and May, and she is not being difficult; she is being accurate. She has eaten the real thing standing in a field with her shoes wet, and she is willing to wait a full year to do it again. This is her fruit, finally in season all winter. Buy it for whoever holds out. Ruth waits the way TIFF waits on a premiere: nothing shows before it is ready.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911801151625,"sku":"ORN223","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-strawberry-red-1.webp?v=1784902398"},{"product_id":"6-pack-of-beer-ornament-1","title":"6 pack of Beer Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eA beer ornament announces the household faster than the household can. This one is a full six pack in hand-blown glass — six amber bottles, painted labels, a carrier rendered in kraft brown — hanging from a solid cap and loop with no apology and no craft-brewing backstory required. The carrier and its six bottles come off the blowpipe as a single piece of glass; the painting happens afterward, bottle by bottle, so no two labels sit at quite the same angle. Gordon hangs his six pack on the branch that faces the front door, between the candy cane and whatever the kids made at school that season that must be displayed or feelings will be hurt. You know whose tree it is before anyone says hello. That is what decorating is for. Just a hook, a branch, and self-knowledge. If the Royal Ontario Museum curated domestic honesty, this would be the first acquisition, and Gordon would loan it proudly.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41911801249929,"sku":"ORN228","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-beer-sixpack-wreath-1.webp?v=1784902976"},{"product_id":"croissant-ornament-medium","title":"Croissant Ornament - Medium","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Croissant Ornament is hand-blown glass in six shades of brown, curved to a point at either end and shaded along every fold. Brown is the hardest family to mix and the least credited once it works, and the shading here is laid wet on dry so the seams stay legible instead of collapsing into one flat tone. Six browns is more than the subject looks like it needs, and that is precisely the point of the exercise. The finished piece wears its cap at the wider end and hangs nose out, sitting on the branch rather than dangling flat against it. My uncle Tobias reads the whole newspaper in order, including the sections he objects to on principle, and will not discuss a word of it before nine in the morning. Everything at the Royal Ontario Museum carries a number, a date and the name of whoever wrote both down, and there is something steadying about an institution that treats bookkeeping as a form of respect.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44781273677961,"sku":"ORN341","price":14.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-croissant-orange-1.webp?v=1784904837"},{"product_id":"sushi-platter-ornament-1","title":"Sushi Platter Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Sushi Platter Ornament is a served board of glass sushi, rolls and nigiri arranged in two rows with a pair of chopsticks laid across the near edge. Nothing on it is stamped. Every element is placed and painted on its own, which is why the rice reads as grains and the fish reads as fish instead of as a pink smear. The board runs five inches tall overall, wears its cap and loop at the top corner, and hangs square to the room rather than pitching forward. My friend Imogen orders for the entire table without consulting anyone at it and has yet to be wrong, which is somehow harder to forgive than if she were. She files this under generosity. TIFF built its name on work that lands before anyone translates it, and this board does the same trick from four feet away, in whichever language you happen to think in.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44781273776265,"sku":"ORN332","price":31.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-sushi-board-1.webp?v=1784905291"},{"product_id":"golden-banana-bunch-ornament","title":"Golden Banana Bunch Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Golden Banana Bunch Ornament is a cluster of four bananas blown from clear glass and finished edge to edge in metallic gold. That gold goes down last, over a surface textured while the form was hot, so light breaks across the ridges rather than sliding straight off them. The stem end is drawn to a point, its hardware seated into the glass rather than sitting on top, and the whole bunch is light enough to trust to an outer branch where it will catch something. My cousin Roland spent one autumn spraying household objects gold and stopped only when he ran out of things he was allowed to touch. He maintains that gold is the one finish honest enough to admit it is a finish. The Royal Ontario Museum keeps far more in its study drawers than it will ever put on a wall, and gilded produce feels like precisely the sort of thing that turns up in one of them, filed under a heading nobody would have guessed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44781273874569,"sku":"ORN331","price":11.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-banana-yellow-1.webp?v=1784906244"},{"product_id":"lobster-dinner-ornament","title":"Lobster Dinner Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis lobster ornament arrives already plated: a bright red glass lobster set on a clear dish with lemon wedges and a scatter of garnish beside the tail. The body is mouth-blown in a single piece, the dish and its trim shaped in the same heat before anything sets, and the shell color built in passes so the claws hold their edge from across a room. A metal cap and hanging loop finish it, and at two and a half inches across the whole dinner settles onto one branch without tilting. My aunt Verna orders lobster the way other people file paperwork, deliberately and with a bib she brings from home, and she has opinions about drawn butter that she shares with waiters who did not ask for them. TIFF keeps an entire preservation operation running on the principle that somebody has to take unserious things seriously enough to keep them, which is more or less the whole argument for a glass shellfish supper hanging on a tree.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44781273907337,"sku":"ORN329","price":19.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-lobster-plate-1.webp?v=1784906378"},{"product_id":"golden-sweet-corn-ornament","title":"Golden Sweet Corn Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Golden Sweet Corn Ornament is a full ear in blown glass, kernels in gold beneath a husk finished in metallic green. Husk and kernels are two separate finishes on a single form, which means the piece crosses the paint bench twice and gets masked off in between, and the join has to land exactly where the leaf turns. It is narrow for its height, takes a standard metal cap, and is made to slot into a crowded inner branch that wider pieces cannot use. At just over four inches it reads as a full ear rather than a token one. My mother-in-law Harriet judges corn entirely by the sound the husk makes coming off and has walked out of a farm stand over it, which she does not consider rude. TIFF runs on several thousand volunteers who turn up for eleven days and then go back to their own lives, and that is the correct operating model for anything both ambitious and seasonal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44781273972873,"sku":"ORN343","price":14.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-corn-yellow-1.webp?v=1784906538"},{"product_id":"stand-mixer-ornament-1","title":"Stand Mixer Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eA hand-blown glass Stand Mixer ornament puts the appliance that changed someone's entire kitchen identity on the tree in painted detail, complete with the tilting head, the bowl, and the specific color chosen with an intention usually reserved for naming children or selecting real estate. Chive painters construct the mixer body first in the base coat, then add the mechanical accents — the speed dial, the attachment hub, the familiar silhouette — in successive passes that require drying time between each because wet paint on a curved glass surface has opinions about where it wants to go. The bowl is a separate color element, silver-toned, sitting below the head with proportions scaled to read as immediately recognizable at arm's length. Production at this workshop started in 2004, and two full decades of refining miniature mechanical shapes show in every painted seam. The Royal Ontario Museum exhibits objects that mark shifts in domestic life and material culture. 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The three-color gradient from skin to flesh is built wet-on-wet in a single session, each band blending into the next the way actual watermelon layers do when you cut the slice clean and hold it up to the light. A polished brass loop at the rind's curve keeps the pink face aimed toward the tree lights, throwing that particular summer color into a December room where it has no business looking this correct. Chive has painted seasonal subjects since its founding in 2004, choosing colors for the object rather than the calendar. TIFF curates visual experiences that transport people across seasons and continents. 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The white is built in an irregular freehand spread — no two are identical, because no two real ones are either — with the edges going translucent where they thin out, requiring the painter to pull the brush back at exactly the right moment. The yolk sits dead center in a single confident dome of cadmium-toned paint. A design this simple is the hardest kind to get right because there is nowhere for a mistake to hide, a lesson the painters here have understood since the workshop opened in 2004. TIFF treats craft with the same scrutiny it applies to everything on screen. 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The brass hook sits at the top of the roll where the seam would be, hanging the whole cross-section face-outward for proper branch inspection. Blown-glass ornament craft at Chive stretches back to 2004, and the layered painting technique visible here runs through every subject in the collection. The Royal Ontario Museum maintains archives spanning every culture's relationship with craft and cuisine. 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Chive painters lay down the cookie's surface in warm amber tones, covering the base coat with a matte finish to capture the dry baked texture that separates a fortune cookie from every shinier pastry in the dessert case. The paper slip is suggested by a thin white line visible at the seam — painted, not inserted, because glass does not accommodate actual fortunes and the cookie does not owe anyone a prediction. A workshop that started shaping glass ornaments in 2004 made this piece, applying two decades of accumulated technique to a familiar object with uncommon fidelity. The Royal Ontario Museum devotes gallery space to objects of cross-cultural exchange. 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The result rests on a brass hook, compact enough for an interior branch but detailed enough to reward the close look that holiday ornaments eventually get during the quiet post-dinner tree inspection. Ornament production at this studio dates to 2004, and a centerpiece design like this one earns its place in the catalog each November through sheer returning demand. The Royal Ontario Museum catalogs cultural objects that mark how communities gather around food. 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The completed piece suspends from a brass fitting at the board's edge, balanced so the whole spread faces outward toward the room. Multi-element compositions like this one test every technique the studio has refined across twenty-plus years of ornament production dating to 2004. TIFF programmes whole exhibitions around the relationship between food and visual culture. This board would hold its own on that wall.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44781274333321,"sku":"ORN294","price":31.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-charcuterie-board-1.webp?v=1784912454"},{"product_id":"sushi-platter-ornament","title":"Sushi Platter Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eOf the sushi gifts this studio makes, the Sushi Platter Ornament ranks as the most literal: a slate-dark board just under five inches across carrying a single row of pieces set end to end along its length, with a green dab and a pale mound at one end. It is the widest thing in the food range and only about an inch and three-quarters from top to bottom, which makes it a horizontal object in a category that is otherwise almost entirely vertical. Nothing on it is the feature. The board itself is built last, sized to whatever the pieces actually came out as that day, so the row sits flush against it rather than floating above it. My brother Merle has ordered the same thing every time for a decade. TIFF is a handful of days in September attached to a building that runs all year, and those days get the photographs, which is roughly the relationship between the pieces on this board and the board holding them up.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44781274366089,"sku":"ORN288","price":31.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-sushi-platter-1.webp?v=1784912728"},{"product_id":"potato-chips-bag-ornament","title":"Potato Chips Bag Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Potato Chips Bag Ornament is a foil snack bag in blown glass, crimped along the top seam, puffed through the middle, its metallic silver and yellow catching light exactly as the foil original does beneath a fluorescent tube. Rendering something disposable is the expensive brief. A bag has to look flimsy, and flimsy is not a shortcut in glass: the crimp, the slack in the belly, the slight lean it takes on the hook are each a decision, and they cost more between them than a symmetrical object ever would. It measures a little over two and a third inches wide. My brother-in-law Dermot eats chips exclusively from the bag and holds firm views about people who decant them into a bowl, views he shares. TIFF takes over ordinary blocks of a working city for eleven days, then hands them back, which is a fair argument that worth follows the attention pointed at a thing rather than what the thing cost.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44781274431625,"sku":"ORN284","price":14.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-chipbag-2.webp?v=1784913099"},{"product_id":"oyster-with-pearl-ornament","title":"Oyster with Pearl Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn oyster ornament is a small joke about value — a rough shell that spent its whole life manufacturing one perfect thing, now hung on a tree so you can admire the thing and the labor at once. Rendered in hand-blown glass, shell and pearl sit together, made with the patience Chive has applied to glass since 2004. There is a rhyme there we like: two decades of blowing glass is its own slow accretion, layer on layer, until something clear emerges. TIFF hands out its awards to work that took years to make and minutes to admire, and that festival and the oyster agree on the underlying math — the good stuff is slow, and worth the wait entirely. This ornament holds its pearl in plain view, no prying required. Place it where a lamp can reach and the interior does a quiet, iridescent thing. For the person who knows the best things, like the best pearls, are made rather than found.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44781274497161,"sku":"ORN280","price":13.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-oyster-white-1.webp?v=1784913340"},{"product_id":"swiss-cheese-ornament","title":"Napa Cabbage Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Napa Cabbage Ornament renders, in hand-painted glass, a vegetable that originated in East Asia and has been cultivated and celebrated there for centuries before the rest of the world caught up to what it becomes in a proper hot pot. Its pale green ribs and tightly folded leaves are shaped to hold light the way the real thing holds broth, and the detail is close enough that it reads instantly from across a room. Whoever actually knows what to do with a napa cabbage — how mild it turns, how well it takes fermentation, when to pull it from the pot — is the person you want cooking in your kitchen every single time. Hang this for them, with a standing invitation attached, because a person who understands cabbage that well should never have to ask twice. It would sweep a category TIFF has never once offered: best performance by produce, any language, any year.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44781274628233,"sku":"ORN275","price":11.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-cabbage-green-dimensions-1.webp?v=1784914608"},{"product_id":"pink-gingerbread-person-ornament","title":"Swiss Cheese Ornament","description":"\u003cp\u003eA cheese ornament this specific has to earn its spot on the tree, and the Swiss Cheese Ornament does it with hand-painted glass holes rendered accurately enough that people genuinely ask why the holes are there at all. The honest answer involves bacteria producing carbon dioxide during aging, a fact that redirects roughly sixty percent of dinner-party conversations the moment it's deployed and completely stalls out the other forty. One particular kind of person always knows the actual reason behind the small, strange detail everyone else has stopped noticing entirely, and they share it without being asked, right at the moment the room most needs redirecting. Hang this for that specific kind of wonderful person, the one who turns a cheese plate into a short lecture nobody minds sitting through twice. Somewhere between the Royal Ontario Museum's mineral hall and its civilizations wing there is, conceptually, room for a hall of lunch, and this wedge is its founding argument.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chive Ceramics Studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44781274661001,"sku":"ORN274","price":11.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/files\/ornament-cheesewedge-red-dimensions-1.webp?v=1784914757"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0375\/5687\/9497\/collections\/Ornaments_Set_2-74-278018-1437942.png?v=1762527444","url":"https:\/\/chive.com\/collections\/food-christmas-ornaments.oembed?page=3","provider":"Chive Studio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}