19th C. Oil on Board Peaches Still Life 4oth birthdat Everything about this hand thrown

Everything about this hand thrown stoneware bowl is

I've always been a bit amazed by the prices these old folk art sock/stocking cats command

with some inspirational cartoon planes from a newspaper glued to the back

and on the front but not backs of the pages

19th C. Oil on Board Peaches Still Life 4oth birthdat Everything about this hand thrownI love an antique still life painting of fruit, and this pile of peaches with purple fig at right was beautifully executed, with a richness perfectly befitting ripe peaches! It hasn't been cleaned, and is a somewhat dark, but get it in the right light and those peaches are luminous! (Of course one could have it cleaned, but I personally like the aura and atmospherics of it just as it is, as if painted in candlelight to begin with and meant to be