Dappled Apple, Antique Theorem Watercolor on Watermarked Paper plastic balls I think they're quite beautiful

I think they're quite beautiful things

Here the horizontal orientation is just right

lending a certain wildness but also amplifying the sense of specific place-ness and atmosphere

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The lid is tight but slides on and off fine

Dappled Apple, Antique Theorem Watercolor on Watermarked Paper plastic balls I think they're quite beautifulOne 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