Porcelain Handguns

Artist Yvonne Lee Schultz makes porcelain replicas of James Bond's Walther PPK handgun:

The fragile weapon, hand-painted in the style of classic tableware motifs, liesnext to your coffee and cake, asking to be picked up. Its coolness andcomfortable grip increase the qualms of the user, leaving him in a quandary between the pleasure of luxury and violence.

The pistols are available in a variety of patterns.

http://www.yvonneleeschultz.com/work/porcelain-pistol/ via Geekosystem

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See how it feels, Charlie?

You must at least admit how it looks: shameless, egregious, sleazy.

PS: Yvonne, what're you doing?

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kinda sad she knocked of Charles Kraft? guess she didnt think about the billion of other people who saw the entire book made about charles and his delft ware hand guns? cant wait to see who she knocks off next...maybe she will paint a campbell's soup can or put a shark in a big glass tank.

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The next logical step is to combine this with the Hello Kitty AR-15, producing a pink porcelain Walther replica with a saccharine cartoon cat on the handle.

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Charles Krafft did a beautiful series of these in 1999 for the Slovenian Ministry of Defense show. Later toured the US to much low-brow fanfare and High-brow reviews in numerous arts periodicals.
http://www.antiquesatoz.com/artatoz/krafft/