Wonderful Wedding Present Pastel Bowl of Fruit by Great Aunt Mollie, c. 1919, At Age 81 night sky making it perfect for storing

making it perfect for storing little things

and even better: handwritten in pencil down the leg of one figure is Sharkey

one of a kind piece

Feels pretty holy to me

with marvelous tiny fingers

Wonderful Wedding Present Pastel Bowl of Fruit by Great Aunt Mollie, c. 1919, At Age 81 night sky making it perfect for storingThis is one of two artworks found in Nashville that were done by 80+ year old women, which in and of itself makes me happy, and even more happily they are both great things. The age of the makers also reminds one of the fact that things made by a person at one point in time carry that maker's whole history of reference points; in the case of this pastel, for example, the Aunt Mollie who drew it would have been born in 1838 (as indicated from the note