Stone Fruit Apricot and Plum - A Pair hip flask square edged

square edged

I have found just a couple of other old carved folk art monkeys with a similar construction--seated like this

and charcoal

This one was filed half-way through from one direction

and became know for hyper realistic metal point work

Stone Fruit Apricot and Plum - A Pair hip flask square edgedMy love for stone (marble) fruit only grows, and much to the horror of various sellers, I fear I find myself treating it as I do fruit at the grocery store, carefully inspecting each piece in a pile (or many piles) before landing on just the ones I like! I believe these two are meant to be an apricot and a plum, though as one also finds stone fruit miniatures, they might also be taken as a smaller than actual sized under ripe peach and very ripe