Earliest Painted Treen Apple Box with Carved Stem, Beautifully Worn and Weathered pressed clay planter replacing Spencerian writing

replacing Spencerian writing

clearly an old one

with an especially long wire neck giving it lots of flex

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

Earliest Painted Treen Apple Box with Carved Stem, Beautifully Worn and Weathered pressed clay planter replacing Spencerian writingAs 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