Upside Down Golden Apple! Antique Theorem Watercolor on Watermarked Paper cat with headphones some scratches below the pillow

some scratches below the pillow and mask

I once had a set of San José Mission pottery plates of this same design

"Just Make it Moxie for Mine" piece (which was encased in a plastic slip) at a recent estate sale because I loved the graphics on the cover so much

I just fell in love with the essential

(That lighter colored ring on the flatter bottom suggests it has been sitting on the table too long and has started to rot

Upside Down Golden Apple! Antique Theorem Watercolor on Watermarked Paper cat with headphones some scratches below the pillowOne of three lush, strongly graphic old theorem watercolor paintings of fruit today, purchased together in Pennsylvania and making me think about the kinship between theorems (made using stencils, and with glass straws used for blowing the base level of watercolor paint) and airbrushed designs. Surely all done by one person, and a faint penciled number at the corner of each suggests they were likely part of a larger series (one sees similar numbering