Christmas bauble "Bird on Sakura" 6 cm

Clear glass Christmas bauble with a bird on a cherry blossom, 6 cm diameter

Decorate your home in Japanese style! Even at Christmas...

• I hand-painted blossoming cherry trees with a blue bird on the glass bauble
• I was inspired to paint this motif by a 19th-century woodcut housed in the collections of the National Gallery in Prague
• in Japan, the festival of blooming cherry blossoms called hanami is celebrated in spring
• the motif of birds sitting on various trees and flowers is a very popular motif in Japanese painting
  

About Christmas decorations:

• 2 variants of glass baubles: clear transparent or "frosted" matte translucent
• the diameter of the bauble is approximately 6 cm
• I hand-painted the motif on the decoration with glass paints
  
• I bought the bauble from a manufacturer of traditional hand-blown glass Christmas decorations in Opava
• the decoration is hung on a color-coordinated satin ribbon
• the Christmas decoration is packaged in a gift box