Antique Salvaged Oil on Canvas Still Life of Fruit and Pitcher antique ashanti weight With a little research I

With a little research I learned that these origami parasols were once a common craft among Japanese American women

perhaps meant to be Native American

What's especially cool about this old carved whimsy is that the "shelf" separating the two balls slides all the way up and down inside

I find it quite an elegant piece

Colored pencil and pastel on paper

Antique Salvaged Oil on Canvas Still Life of Fruit and Pitcher antique ashanti weight With a little research IYum yum! This 19th c. oil on canvas painting has been through it, for sure unevenly cut from its stretcher at some point, and with a mend to the back of the canvas and a few other rough patches. But what a luminous still life of some very beautiful fruit it remains, with the pink glow of that watermelon completely doing it for me. I'd be inclined to pin it to the wall from the top corners just as its close enough to taste it! but certainly it could be