Radiant Old Painted Folk Art Watermelon Slice polar bear lending themselves to all sorts

lending themselves to all sorts of sculptural arrangements and making me want to paint a Morandi-esque still life of them

his brothers William and Joseph

2 1/2" tall

was gifted in 1872 (handwritten in ink along the far left edge

I purchased this piece from one of my favorite sellers in New Hampshire

Radiant Old Painted Folk Art Watermelon Slice polar bear lending themselves to all sortsI never paid much attention to folk art watermelon then I found this beautiful slice and realized its all about glorious color! Surface, too, here, with perfectly aged paint, showing a little more cracking on one side than the other. There's a pale green tint to the inner rind, and the red, with creamy white and black seeds dotting it, is just perfection. Pure yum. 11 1 8 x 3 11 16 x 1 1 8 and in very good condition, with a little paint loss to the