19th C. Oil on Board Peaches Still Life 4oth birthdat I was pretty excited to

I was pretty excited to find a box full of these handmade slides at the flea market this weekend--a box in which many were rolled up in newspaper from 1945

As I believe the cup from which one drinks should be a great source of pleasure

Everything about this hand thrown stoneware bowl is

15 5/8" w x 9 5/8" d x 5 3/4" t and in very good

A Brown who did them is none other than Harold Brown

19th C. Oil on Board Peaches Still Life 4oth birthdat I was pretty excited toI love an antique still life painting of fruit, and this pile of peaches with purple fig at right was beautifully executed, with a richness perfectly befitting ripe peaches! It hasn't been cleaned, and is a somewhat dark, but get it in the right light and those peaches are luminous! (Of course one could have it cleaned, but I personally like the aura and atmospherics of it just as it is, as if painted in candlelight to begin with and meant to be