Chinoiserie Blue & White Pig Art Print | Crum Art

He walked into the show ring looking like the best platter in the china cabinet, and honestly, the judges never stood a chance. Chinoiserie Pig — Farm Animal Print in Blue & White by Betsy Crum A stout, cheerful white pig wears his markings like porcelain glaze — delft-blue peonies and scrolling flourishes painted right across his body, as if he ambled through the china cabinet and came out patterned. His snout and the insides of his ears are the only warm notes, two soft pinks that keep him a pig and not just a pattern. Around him, a wreath of blue peonies curls on cream like the border of an heirloom plate that finally got the centerpiece it deserved. This is farm animal art with its papers in order: a county-fair pig — fed well, scrubbed clean, standing proud — painted the way the old porcelain masters would have done it if the stock show had ever come through Delft. Show barn on one side of the family, china cabinet on the other, and he takes after both. Where He'll Work in Your House Kitchens adore him — over the coffee station, beside open shelving, anywhere breakfast happens. He brings blue-and-white calm to a dining room, holds his own in a nursery, and slots into a gallery wall of botanicals and farm animal prints right next to his ring-mate, the chinoiserie lamb. He also makes a very good Texas gift for anyone whose decorating heart lives somewhere between the farmhouse and the grandmillennial china hutch. Questions Why is a pig painted in blue and white? It's the chinoiserie tradition — the blue-on-white style of antique porcelain — applied to the barnyard. The same brushwork that usually gets pagodas and songbirds, spent on a pig who deserved it. Is he part of a set? He is — one of a full barnyard of blue-and-white chinoiserie prints, farm animals and cowboy icons all painted in the same delft style. Collect a few and the wall starts to look like a china cabinet that got ambitious. What's actually pink on him? Just the snout and the inner ears. Everything else is blue, white, and cream — which is exactly why those two little pinks land so well. Who made him? Betsy Crum, working in Texas — the peony wreath is hers too. Printed to order. Betsy Crum's wall is this way. This pig is the best company in the barn — scrubbed, fed, and visibly pleased about all of it. Hang him beside his barn-mates, the chinoiserie chicken and the blue-and-white bull, and you’ve got the liveliest aisle of the fair in porcelain blue.