Basket of Peaches, Antique Oil on Canvas (with a few tears) graphic sign including baskets

including baskets

good for pens and pencils and all manner of small things

While wonderfully worn

I'm guessing that the leather strip threaded through the cheeks of this old primitively carved figure once formed a loop by which it hung

lending themselves to all sorts of arrangements

Basket of Peaches, Antique Oil on Canvas (with a few tears) graphic sign including basketsThis old folk painting of a basket of peaches has a few obvious tears in the canvas, but I like the big spill of them so much and it seems rather right that one would just want to tear right into them! With a nice sort of moodiness about it, and also a real radiance and pop to the fruit in the right light (more so than my photos convey.) Late 19th c. or so, I believe. 20 1 4" x 16 1 4". Tears to the canvas as documented. In generally good condition