Large Naive Watercolor Still Life: Wine Bottle and Apple arts and crafts jardiniere one ring fitting inside the

one ring fitting inside the other

Plus brass spinners at their centers which work wonderfully to set them spinning

Plenty of foxing and stains on this old sketchbook page of drawings done by one Emma Ackerley in 1870

The surface ranges from a shiny midnight blue to a dark mossy green to a stony matte black with a terrific texture

Large Naive Watercolor Still Life: Wine Bottle and Apple arts and crafts jardiniere one ring fitting inside thePerhaps this one was done in a school art class, I'm not sure, but to me, there is just something really right about it, held in the balance between the watery pinks of the apple and the inked details on the neck and cork of the tall wine bottle. The background is a pale aqua, with some more saturated brish stokes above the apple. And on the label of the bottle, "France" in blue. Maybe not a masterpiece, but to my eye pretty satisfying. Sold in the