Radiant Old Painted Folk Art Watermelon Slice chess pieces from Cranbrook Art Museum's website:

from Cranbrook Art Museum's website:

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I love the way she is framed by the cascade of her long hair on one side

The turned nobs themselves are beautiful too

and it seems likely that's where it originated

Radiant Old Painted Folk Art Watermelon Slice chess pieces from Cranbrook Art Museum's website:I 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