Wonderful Wedding Present Pastel Bowl of Fruit by Great Aunt Mollie, c. 1919, At Age 81 1930s relief carving ) One cover shows some

)  One cover shows some water-staining

6 3/4" d x 5 1/16" w x 4 1/4" t and in good condition

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Some light staining to the paper at bottom center and along the edges

but they've very empathetic and nice arranged in all sorts of groupings

Wonderful Wedding Present Pastel Bowl of Fruit by Great Aunt Mollie, c. 1919, At Age 81 1930s relief carving ) One cover shows someThis is one of two artworks found in Nashville that were done by 80+ year old women, which in and of itself makes me happy, and even more happily they are both great things. The age of the makers also reminds one of the fact that things made by a person at one point in time carry that maker's whole history of reference points; in the case of this pastel, for example, the Aunt Mollie who drew it would have been born in 1838 (as indicated from the note