Extra Large Stone Fruit Orange picture frame with bird are how it looks out

are how it looks out a frame

each side measures 2 7/8" and the carved area measure 3 7/8" wide on the angle

which makes sense as it feels rather like a Constructivist sculpture

Clearly this one

who signed it (in tiny lettering) and sent it in 1909--was among them

Extra Large Stone Fruit Orange picture frame with bird are how it looks outA huge stone fruit orange, which almost feels as if made of cast iron it is heavy! Most often with stone fruit is is the subtleties that get me the veins and bruises and color variation but in this case it is the completely iconic feeling of this big, very orange orange, as if just having arrived in a crate from Florida or California (and really it makes me want to stick a straw right in it!) I'm also rather amazed at the ability to carve stone to