Shower Me With Love Wonderfully Strange Old Bathing Beauty Rum Bottle late 1800s wooden crate and receding head of hair

and receding head of hair

I think these were made for lab use and to withstand very high heats

Wilis’ name and the year 1883 appears on one page of the sketcbook

as if a study for a medal to be cast in bronze

At top is the Clustered Animal Flower "stretching out its claws" and below are a Sea Carnation and a Proboscis Polipus

Shower Me With Love Wonderfully Strange Old Bathing Beauty Rum Bottle late 1800s wooden crate and receding head of hairWhat a weird one! I love it for its strangeness, and how almost demonic she looks, as if having already imbibed a good deal of rum, and with this little fox gazing up at her seeming a bit afraid of what she might do! The wear to the surface just enhances the effect, perhaps making one want to swear off rum altogether! (And it also makes me imagine that whatever rum once filled this bottle had to have been very much a home brew, a la bathtub gin!) 7 1