SOLD Old Stone Fruit Orange with Smushed Bottom (Good Resting Spot) antique painting label frame 13" x 9 3/4”

frame 13" x 9 3/4”

lending a sense of momento mori to it all

marker and/or watercolor

With perfectly imperfectly carved points and arches running across the top and bottom punctuated with little holes that follow their own logic

This pair I believe dates to the 1960s-70s

SOLD Old Stone Fruit Orange with Smushed Bottom (Good Resting Spot) antique painting label frame 13" x 9 3/4”It's been a bit since I bought a piece of stone fruit, but this orange won me. I do appreciate bowls filled with a bunch of stone fruits together, but am much more inclined to choose individual pieces I regard as stand alone, specific objects not ones to throw in with the rest! As is the case with this orange with a large divet (smush) on one side, that I read as the mark of a soft, on its way to rotting, orange, but which has the added benefit of