Radiant Peach! Antique Theorem Watercolor on Watermarked Paper carved stuff box Photos don't quite do justice

Photos don't quite do justice to this one--getting enough light on the painting blows out the gold of the frame

This book is worth owning for the list of patterns alone--- which includes large-scale elements but also such intimate ones as "sitting wall

Base measures 8 1/2" l x 2 5/8" w x 3/4" thick

I'm not sure where this mushroom originally lived -- whether it was made as signage for a farm stand or to prop in the garden or what--but whatever the case

Radiant Peach! Antique Theorem Watercolor on Watermarked Paper carved stuff box Photos don't quite do justiceOne of three super saturated, strongly graphic old theorem watercolors of fruit today, purchased together in Pennsylvania and making me think about the kinship between theorems (made using stencils, and I believe with glass straws used for blowing the base level of watercolor paint) and airbrushed designs. Surely all done by one person, and a faint penciled number at the corner of each suggests they were likely part of a larger series (one sees