Earliest Painted Treen Apple Box with Carved Stem, Beautifully Worn and Weathered wax butter With lovely scalloped edge to

With lovely scalloped edge to the lace collar

most of the figures with tabs added on reverse for standing them up

earlyish 1900s I would guess

with lines separating double digits

with detailing around the perimeter of front and back and across the spine

Earliest Painted Treen Apple Box with Carved Stem, Beautifully Worn and Weathered wax butter With lovely scalloped edge toAs 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