Wonderful Early Etched Glass Bottle/Flask with Flowers in Urns and Threaded Neck wooden acrobat but pure love and joy

but pure love and joy to me

but blocks instead of vessels

constellations

with the bleed through of the reverse page showing a bit more pronounced in photos than in fact

2 x 3 1/4"

Wonderful Early Etched Glass Bottle/Flask with Flowers in Urns and Threaded Neck wooden acrobat but pure love and joyThis I think is quite a special, early one I don't pay much attention to glass (except for ancient Roman!) but the etched decoration covering most every inch of this decanter bottle is like my very favorite sort of early 19th century naive drawings watercolors and needlepoint samplers. With an urn on each side giving rise to a tall, flowering stalk, and two more flowering stalks on the shorts sides, framed by joyfully zig zagging lines to either side,