Earliest Painted Treen Apple Box with Carved Stem, Beautifully Worn and Weathered Doubleday It's as much a sculpture

It's as much a sculpture as a vessel

About as pure a pull/push toy as could be

and then clear glass sides lined with actual paper doilies inside

I especially love that the roots are still tightly holding a clump of dirt some 140 years later

Earliest Painted Treen Apple Box with Carved Stem, Beautifully Worn and Weathered Doubleday It's as much a sculptureAs 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