Earliest Painted Treen Apple Box with Carved Stem, Beautifully Worn and Weathered Doubleday though I am not certain

though I am not certain of that

but I thought maybe a good thing to let that be a choice

It's as much a sculpture as a vessel

Great still for pouring hot sake

I don't pay much attention to old pulleys

Earliest Painted Treen Apple Box with Carved Stem, Beautifully Worn and Weathered Doubleday though I am not certainAs 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