Wonderful 1870s Oil on Board Still Life Painting of Oranges entomology The lip is a bit

The lip is a bit irregular due to the roughness of the clay

And there's a hand my trusty friend

There are two existing loops for doing so

to her pearls

with beautiful wood grain and these nice rounded lips where the two sides join

Wonderful 1870s Oil on Board Still Life Painting of Oranges entomology The lip is a bitI am completely taken with this small oil on board still life of a couple of oranges; just a little gem of a painting I think. Initialed and dated at bottom right A. J. B (18)77 I believe I like it even better for the aging of the paint, which has had made the skin of the unsliced orange, especially, feel all the more orange like; just fantastic. And just right set on this simple tabletop, with a loose suggestion of wood grain, against a soft,