Earliest Painted Treen Apple Box with Carved Stem, Beautifully Worn and Weathered Doubleday It's as much a sculpture

It's as much a sculpture as a vessel

I especially love that the roots are still tightly holding a clump of dirt some 140 years later

which I think may both be self portraits

About as pure a pull/push toy as could be

and then clear glass sides lined with actual paper doilies inside

Earliest Painted Treen Apple Box with Carved Stem, Beautifully Worn and Weathered Doubleday It's as much a sculptureAs previously noted and perhaps as explicitly evident! I always have an eye out for turned wooden apples. I love them as objects, and as vessels, and as painted surfaces, and they vary a great deal depending on when they were made and the lives they have lived. This is I believe the earliest example I have found, with a carved, tapered stem, unusual, and the thin ribs from being turned on a lathe subtly visible through the very soft red and yellow