Celebrate the fat of the land
Bonhams sale of Naive Art -Times Online
Rosettes at agricultural shows in the 19th century were given to the largest and bulkiest cattle, pigs and sheep. For their owners, the size of the beast plus the fattiness and marbling of the meat were important. The phenomenon produced its own genre of naive art as farmers commissioned portraits of their prime animals....
I'm pleased that here at the castle we have some examples of this type of picture - here are a couple of examples of the fattier Porkers...
Comments
Quite right, but you won't get any money for them.
Posted by: fdm | March 20, 2006 10:29 AM
I was always under the impression that judges at the Royal Welsh Show awarded rosettes to those bulls whose bollocks dangled closest to the floor.
Posted by: Tim Newman | March 20, 2006 12:11 PM
Oh, pulease!
The third one is a right skinny runt compared to the rest of the porkers. Also, you'd have to stew it for hours to make it even chewable.
Hardly even worth sharpening the axe.
Maybe.
Posted by: Misty | March 21, 2006 12:01 AM