Earliest Painted Treen Apple Box with Carved Stem, Beautifully Worn and Weathered pressed clay planter though I'd be very content

though I'd be very content to treat it like a sculpture and just set it somewhere to be admired

And as penguins are rather Art Deco looking to begin with

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

I believe whisk brooms/brushes of this sort of construction are generally referred to "turkey wing"--though the bristles on most are more angled

Earliest Painted Treen Apple Box with Carved Stem, Beautifully Worn and Weathered pressed clay planter though I'd be very contentAs 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