Earliest Painted Treen Apple Box with Carved Stem, Beautifully Worn and Weathered pressed clay planter with an especially long wire

with an especially long wire neck giving it lots of flex

I'd want to use it or at least keep it near at hand

Each spoon measures 2 7/8" long x 9/16" wide x just shy of 1/2" deep

And as penguins are rather Art Deco looking to begin with

Earliest Painted Treen Apple Box with Carved Stem, Beautifully Worn and Weathered pressed clay planter with an especially long wireAs previously noted and perhaps as explicitly evident! I always have an eye out for turned wooden apples. I love them as objects, and as vessels, and as painted surfaces, and they vary a great deal depending on when they were made and the lives they have lived. This is I believe the earliest example I have found, with a carved, tapered stem, unusual, and the thin ribs from being turned on a lathe subtly visible through the very soft red and yellow