Painted Pottery Cake

I've been brainstorming over this cake for many months.  It was for my husband's aunt, who has a deep love for Alcobaca pottery from Portugal.  I debated on covering the entire cake with fondant, and painting it, but in the end, decided that doing fondant discs would be the smartest way to go about it.  The yellow background worked really well.

Cake was white almond sour cream with buttercream frosting and bavarian filling.  All fondant discs were hand painted.