19th C. Oil on Board Peaches Still Life prison art box in Japanese--dates from the Meiji

in Japanese--dates from the Meiji period

some remnants of which remain here and there

maybe carved in art class

but I'd probably just throw them in a bowl to look at and call it a day

19th C. Oil on Board Peaches Still Life prison art box in Japanese--dates from the MeijiI love an antique still life painting of fruit, and this pile of peaches with purple fig at right was beautifully executed, with a richness perfectly befitting ripe peaches! It hasn't been cleaned, and is a somewhat dark, but get it in the right light and those peaches are luminous! (Of course one could have it cleaned, but I personally like the aura and atmospherics of it just as it is, as if painted in candlelight to begin with and meant to be