Upside Down Golden Apple! Antique Theorem Watercolor on Watermarked Paper cast terracotta planter Rusting to the barbed wire

Rusting to the barbed wire

perhaps the smaller bowl not quite as old as the larger

white and blue silk thread (now pink

but certainly shows age and a bit of loss here and there

so am listing them as a pair

Upside Down Golden Apple! Antique Theorem Watercolor on Watermarked Paper cast terracotta planter Rusting to the barbed wireOne of three lush, strongly graphic old theorem watercolor paintings of fruit today, purchased together in Pennsylvania and making me think about the kinship between theorems (made using stencils, and with glass straws used for blowing the base level of watercolor paint) and airbrushed designs. Surely all done by one person, and a faint penciled number at the corner of each suggests they were likely part of a larger series (one sees similar numbering