Lovely Antique Watercolor of Three Apples in Great Frame signed studio pottery with frame then painted around

with frame then painted around it

but then it's got another sort of intimacy viewed up close between those basting stitches and more subtle patterns on the some of the fabrics

Guatemalan I believe

discovered in Paris by a Belgian seller

but there's definitely a different sort of immediacy to it

Lovely Antique Watercolor of Three Apples in Great Frame signed studio pottery with frame then painted aroundI've got a special weakness for paintings of apples, especially ones that feel as much like portraits as still lives, and think this antique watercolor is really a lovely one. Crisp and soft and bright, just like an apple, and I love how the artist so carefully positioned the apples such that all of the stems would point exactly the same way. Late 19th early 20th c. I believe, and in a terrific antique dark red painted frame. Framed, as found: 15 5 8"