Perfect Pear: 19th C. Theorem Watercolor on Paper \to hang but everything seems in excellent

but everything seems in excellent working order--a really terrific little kit inside a beautiful box

and the legs appear to be cast brass

I keep finding them--but I think it is rather that they are a magnet for me

who looks a bit Scandanavian to me

and a couple of small stains and one clean tear on the King of spades

Perfect Pear: 19th C. Theorem Watercolor on Paper \to hang but everything seems in excellentThere are so many sorts of things I've fallen more and more in love with over time, theorem paintings very much one of them. I really love the super folky early theorems on velvet, but a crisp watercolor theorem on paper like this one satisfies in a whole different way; what a jewel like thing this ripening pear on its stem is, with a few rich green leaves setting it off just perfectly. So contemporary feeling, too; a perfectly resolved, very lovely