Excellent, Extra Large c. 1900 Painted Treen Apple with Horse Racing Game matchsticks and finely done--to my eye

and finely done--to my eye this vase is pretty close to a perfect thing

Spilling forth  are what appear to be vines to the right

though I might have guessed this was was earlier than that

for the circus furniture

Excellent, Extra Large c. 1900 Painted Treen Apple with Horse Racing Game matchsticks and finely done--to my eye(Photos do no justice here to the scale and beauty of this apple.) This is an early (as far as these go)c. 1900 extra large and extra fine turned and hand painted wood apple. These apples were made in Japan for export to the West, in various sizes, sometimes with a horse race game inside, sometimes with a miniature tea set, sometimes perhaps with nothing at all but it is hard to know now! Happily this one still holds the horse race game, complete with