Earliest Painted Treen Apple Box with Carved Stem, Beautifully Worn and Weathered pressed clay planter I'd want to use it

I'd want to use it or at least keep it near at hand

" Which suggests

though I'd be very content to treat it like a sculpture and just set it somewhere to be admired

Photos do no justice to how striking and lush feeling it is in person

And as penguins are rather Art Deco looking to begin with

Earliest Painted Treen Apple Box with Carved Stem, Beautifully Worn and Weathered pressed clay planter I'd want to use itAs 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