Earliest Painted Treen Apple Box with Carved Stem, Beautifully Worn and Weathered Doubleday which I think may both

which I think may both be self portraits

About as pure a pull/push toy as could be

I don't pay much attention to old pulleys

Great still for pouring hot sake

Earliest Painted Treen Apple Box with Carved Stem, Beautifully Worn and Weathered Doubleday which I think may bothAs 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