Every box of ornaments holds a few that come out first, and usually that has to do with who gave them. The Bevill Round Ornament is hand painted in Tuscany on Italian stoneware, out of the same central Italian ceramic tradition that produces the serveware, fir trees and cardinals drifting across its face exactly as they do across the dishes, so the tree and the table finally agree with each other, the way an Italian house tends to treat Christmas: one continuous setting, from the branches down to the long lunch underneath them. Stefano Roselli, the maestro molder behind many collections, leads the design work. It arrives in a protective clear ornament box, easy to hand to a host, mail to family or put away undamaged until next year. Decorative, handmade in Italy, and the kind of small thing people remember receiving.
