Harmen Loeding STILL LIFE WITH ROSES, ROEMER AND A CHINESE BOWL WITH CHERRIES Oil on panel
Well I had never heard that version.
Looks like bowls have a direct sexual connection.
We are back to needs-
Bessie Smith – Need A Little Sugar In My Bowl (1931)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meuwKhPGItk
She really is not going to take her bowl around to the neighbour to be filled….I hope- https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2008/jul/12/popandrock.film.
I think they are being a little silly I grew up with Captin pugwash the ”kids” tv show.
I was none the wiser until I was in my late teens.
Slatherling seagulls it was all a lie!
‘Captain Pugwash’ Double Meanings
“Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries” (Rudy Vallee, 1931)
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180318-secret-symbols-in-still-life-painting
Cherries are representative of the souls of men.
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi), “The Musicians” (1595), oil on canvas, 36 1/4 x 46 5/8 in. (courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art)
https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2015/painting-music-age-of-caravaggio
Sarah Chalkie Cloonan 