Chive glass charcuterie board ornament in wood tone with crackers and grapes.
Chive glass charcuterie board ornament with cheese, grapes, and cured meat.
Chive glass charcuterie board ornament in wood tone with crackers and grapes.
Chive glass charcuterie board ornament with cheese, grapes, and cured meat.

Food and Drink Christmas Ornaments

Charcuterie Board Ornament

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$31.69
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There's No Such Thing as Just One Ornament

Pick a favorite. Then accept that "just one" was never really an option.

A hand-blown glass charcuterie board ornament puts the most documented food arrangement of the last decade onto the tree in careful miniature, every slice of cured meat and wedge of cheese placed with the kind of deliberate composition that charcuterie people will immediately inspect and silently approve. Chive painters assemble the board surface layer by layer — salami rounds, a brie triangle, three grapes, a sprig of rosemary — each element needing its own brush and color pass, more individual paint stages than almost any other design in the catalog. 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.

Product Detail
  • Material: Glass
  • Composition: Hand-blown borosilicate glass
  • Finish: Hand painted
  • Hardware: pre-strung with a minimalist cord
  • Year Designed: 2025
Dimensions
  • 2.72 inches wide, 4.72 inches tall
Ornament Care Instruction

Remember, treat these ornaments like you would a friendship with someone who brings good wine: gently. Keep them in a safe spot when not in use, avoid introducing them to toddlers or cats, and they'll be around for many holidays to come.
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Returns

We accept returns within 30 days of delivery on unused items in original packaging. If your piece arrives damaged, contact us within 7 days with a photo and we will replace it at no charge.

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The Story Behind This Ornament

My cousin Wesley builds his charcuterie boards from memory with the consistency of a person following blueprints that exist only inside his head, which is either impressive or concerning depending on whether you think a cheese arrangement philosophy qualifies as a personality trait, and I have decided after years of observation that in Wesley’s case it does. The salami goes in a river down the center. The brie always faces two o’clock. The grapes form a cluster at the northeast corner and the rosemary springs run the western border like a hedge and if you move anything before he has photographed it he will notice and the evening will contain a conversation about spatial integrity that nobody asked for but which Wesley delivers with genuine conviction and no apparent awareness that other people at the party came for the food and not the lecture. He started doing this at a housewarming in 2019 with grocery store salami and cheddar cubes and by last December he was sourcing coppa from a specific importer and explaining the moisture content of aged cheddars to anyone who stood still long enough. The board has become the event. The party happens around it. Wesley would deny this but the evidence is the photographs, all forty, taken before anyone was allowed to touch it.

Care Tips

Storage Do’s and Don’ts:

(Because Yes, They’re Fragile)

  • Do wrap each ornament individually in soft tissue paper, bubble wrap, or a gentle cloth. (No, shoving them in a shoebox with tinsel does not count.)
  • Don’t let them clink around in a box together. That’s a recipe for heartbreak and glittery shards.
  • Do store them in a sturdy container (plastic bins with dividers = chef’s kiss) and keep it in a cool, dry place — no attics or sketchy basements, please.

Pro Tip: Label the box like your life depends on it.

Write it on every side, not just the top, since nobody unloading a truck reads the top first. If you're storing these for next year, do future you a favor and note what's inside beyond just "ornaments." A little specificity now saves a lot of bubble wrap archaeology in eleven months.

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About Chive Studio

Painting multiple textures on a single piece is the kind of problem this studio has been volunteering for since 2004, and the charcuterie board is the most concentrated version of that habit in the current catalog. Salami requires a matte sheen. Brie needs a yielding surface that reads as soft even in glass. Grapes demand translucency. Rosemary insists on fine-line brushwork at a scale where a tremor is visible. Each element on the board is a separate painting exercise sharing the same surface, which means the painter cannot simplify one element to save time on another without the whole arrangement losing its coherence. The studio’s painters rotate through board duty specifically because the piece exercises every skill set at once. No other single ornament in the collection asks for this many distinct techniques in this small a space.

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Frequently asked questions

Where can I find a well made charcuterie board ornament?

Chive makes this charcuterie board ornament in hand-blown glass with every element — salami, brie, grapes, rosemary — painted individually across multiple sessions by a single artist who builds the arrangement the way Wesley builds his boards: deliberately, with zero tolerance for approximation and a focus on composition that rewards anyone who has ever assembled one. Available here.

Would the Charcuterie Board ornament win a white elephant exchange?

The Charcuterie Board ornament would win a white elephant exchange on visual complexity alone — the room sees the painted salami and brie and grapes and immediately understands that someone spent more time on this gift than the format requires. Wesley says white elephant is a test of who brought the thing worth stealing. This board passes the test on first unwrap.

Is the Charcuterie Board ornament a good hostess gift idea?

The Charcuterie Board ornament is a strong hostess gift for anyone who has ever assembled a board with intention and photographed it before letting guests touch it. Wesley receives gifts. He remembers the ones that acknowledged his specific thing. An ornament shaped like the thing he does best would earn that acknowledgment permanently. The board speaks their language.

Is the Charcuterie Board ornament hand painted glass or plastic?

The Charcuterie Board ornament is hand-painted glass, not plastic — each element on the board is a separate paint application requiring its own brush and drying time before the next layer goes down. Wesley inspected the salami rounds and confirmed they look cured. He has opinions about cured meats that extend to their glass representations. Painted, layered, legitimate.

Is the Charcuterie Board ornament too heavy for tree branches?

The Charcuterie Board ornament measures 2.72 inches wide and 4.72 inches tall, which makes it one of the taller food ornaments in the collection and gives it the vertical presence of a board propped for display rather than laid flat. Wesley would hang it at inspection height. That seems appropriate given the subject.

What is the best way to store the Charcuterie Board ornament?

Store the Charcuterie Board ornament in tissue inside a rigid box, keeping the painted surface away from other ornaments that could scrape the multi-layered finish during storage. Wesley stores his real boards with the same care, wrapped individually in a closet that has more organizational logic than most offices. Treat the ornament that way.

What pairs well with the Charcuterie Board ornament?

The Charcuterie Board pairs with the wine, cheese, pickle, and coffee ornaments in the food collection — each one representing a different corner of the same table that Wesley would arrange on adjacent branches with deliberate spacing and a rationale he could explain at length if you made the mistake of asking. They work together regardless.

Can the Charcuterie Board ornament be shipped directly as a gift?

The Charcuterie Board ornament arrives in transit-safe packaging built for painted glass rather than a retail gift box, which Wesley would tell you is actually better because it means you control the entire presentation from tissue paper onward and Wesley believes presentation is never an afterthought no matter what you are wrapping. Protected on arrival.
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