Radiant Peach! Antique Theorem Watercolor on Watermarked Paper antique bottle and all quite wonderful

and all quite wonderful

this moon shaped match holder feels friendly and fortuitous--a force for good watching over one's world day and night

and I have to agree--I've never see one packed with as many darnings as this

Rings are 3" in diameter

which are often described as Shaker

Radiant Peach! Antique Theorem Watercolor on Watermarked Paper antique bottle and all quite wonderfulOne 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