Dappled Apple, Antique Theorem Watercolor on Watermarked Paper plastic balls 3 7/8" l x 2

3 7/8" l x 2 7/8" t

Definitely these are pretty early

or something else entirely

every one of them filled

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Dappled Apple, Antique Theorem Watercolor on Watermarked Paper plastic balls 3 7/8" l x 2One of three lush, strongly graphic old theorem watercolor paintings of fruit today, purchased together in Pennsylvania and making me think about the kinship between theorems (made using stencils, and 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 similar numbering