Great Old Stone Fruit Bruised Golden Apple bead eye a planographic printing process

a planographic printing process

2" x 2" x 2" and in very good antique (I do believe) condition

dated 1918

but it certainly feels mid-century Scandanavian

sapphire blue velvet just above the ferrule

Great Old Stone Fruit Bruised Golden Apple bead eye a planographic printing processI continue to inspect pieces of stone fruit wherever I go, only pulling the trigger when I find an especially good and singular specimen. This gently browning golden apple is really a beauty I think, with its speckles all over together with veins in the alabaster showing through making it extremely believable if not all that appetizing! With one very dark bruise (looks like a worm hole bruise to me) on one side and what might be a small patch of paint