“Fig. 1 shows the initial stage in making four slits at right angles from the top, but not quite to the bottom of the peel, beneath which the thumb is inserted to separate them from the body of the fruit.”

Featured on PDR in the collection The Art of Ornamental Orange Peeling (1910)

Images from an article about an unusual form of sculpture, found in a 1910 issue of American Homes and Gardens magazine.

Fig. 1 shows the initial stage in making four slits at right angles from the top, but not quite to the bottom of the peel, beneath which the thumb is inserted to separate them from the body of the fruit.

Date

1910

From

“The Art of Ornamental Orange Peeling”, American Homes and Gardens (Dec 1910)


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