Lovely Antique Watercolor of Three Apples in Great Frame signed studio pottery but then it's got another

but then it's got another sort of intimacy viewed up close between those basting stitches and more subtle patterns on the some of the fabrics

represent an individual maker's solution to the problem/s at hand

with frame then painted around it

Guatemalan I believe

discovered in Paris by a Belgian seller

Lovely Antique Watercolor of Three Apples in Great Frame signed studio pottery but then it's got anotherI've got a special weakness for paintings of apples, especially ones that feel as much like portraits as still lives, and think this antique watercolor is really a lovely one. Crisp and soft and bright, just like an apple, and I love how the artist so carefully positioned the apples such that all of the stems would point exactly the same way. Late 19th early 20th c. I believe, and in a terrific antique dark red painted frame. Framed, as found: 15 5 8"