Wonderful Wedding Present Pastel Bowl of Fruit by Great Aunt Mollie, c. 1919, At Age 81 ball in cage whimsy rattle and painterly pastel walls

and painterly pastel walls

with no folds or tears anywhere

and looks perhaps as if a flaw original to it but I'm not certain

The combination of red painted wooden frame and silver tin drawers arranged in a neat grid on this little wallhanging hardware chest really does it for me

as there is another layer of brown hair peeking out at the back of his neck

Wonderful Wedding Present Pastel Bowl of Fruit by Great Aunt Mollie, c. 1919, At Age 81 ball in cage whimsy rattle and painterly pastel wallsThis is one of two artworks found in Nashville that were done by 80+ year old women, which in and of itself makes me happy, and even more happily they are both great things. The age of the makers also reminds one of the fact that things made by a person at one point in time carry that maker's whole history of reference points; in the case of this pastel, for example, the Aunt Mollie who drew it would have been born in 1838 (as indicated from the note