Grid of Nipples! Antique Porcelain Baby Bottle Nipple Molds in Original Armature straw brush and with them neatly stacked

and with them neatly stacked up inside their folio

I don't believe it can be removed from the cage--at least I have not been able to get it out--but it might be possible from exactly the right angle

surely inspired by an image on a Grecian urn or something along those lines

This one has had a life

Grid of Nipples! Antique Porcelain Baby Bottle Nipple Molds in Original Armature straw brush and with them neatly stackedI couldn't resist this these found at an antiques shop in Lancaster County, PA. A collector friend recently showed me an old porcelain condom mold in his collection of a similar ilk to these, but I think these are pretty decisively bottle nipple molds, to my mind a perfect feminine counterpoint! And to my sensibilities there is a certain surrealist or Louise Bourgeois esque quality to the whole nest of them an uncanny sort of outcrop, emphatic